Well, we are searching for the highest and highly praised work of art ever achieved by mankind.

So the machine I'm going to talk you about is what I call the greatest machine that never was.

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They are considered the greatest rock band in history.

That was how quickly penicillin was produced and became one of the greatest medical advances of all time.

Ah, here comes the great Boronskaja at last.

It's the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted.

A great day. A day of historic importance.

And Hofmann is a Polish pianist and composer of the late 19th century, and he's widely considered one of the greatest pianists of all time.

The greatest yarn since Livingston discovered Stanley.

And to cap it all, brand royalty Agusta, Count Agusta, from the great histories of this stuff.

I would like to talk today about what I think is one of the greatest adventures human beings have embarked upon, which is the quest to understand the universe and our place in it.

So you're looking at a piece of what is by far the largest home video collection ever made.

I always thought great artists felt great compassion for other people.

Ln four days, Pierce is going to make the biggest gold shipment ever.

Right. Dumbest idea ever.

The most remarkable invention you've ever heard of.

Why don't you support the process of the largest ever global truce?

Two of the best men with a gun anybody'd ever see'd together.

This will probably be the largest astronomical conference ever held in South Africa.

Military history, great battles of the past.

I know folks said to me they believe it was one of the greatest errors in the history of the United States.

We launched the biggest illegal art exhibition ever.

A strange statistic by one of the greatest players of all time, having won 14 major titles second to only Jack Nicklaus.

He's got a plan, beautifully worked out for the biggest caper ever to be pulled in the Middle West.

Another of our number who, alas, has been taken from us is President Rafiq al Hariri.

It was built by the grandest Sun King, of the grandest city state, of the grandest civilization of the Americas, the Mayas.

So, humanity is our greatest invention.

And that is the greatest present of all.

And the World Health Organization also says that depression is the biggest epidemic that humankind has ever faced.

Well, let's slip for a moment into the greatest culture sphere ever brought into being by the imagination, that of Polynesia.

It's one of the most successful games of all time.

The historian Thomas Carlyle considered Muhammad one of the world's greatest heroes, yet even he called the Koran as toilsome reading as I ever undertook, a wearisome, confused jumble.

We have the support of the greatest soldier in Germany.

The best growth rates they've had ever.

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest civil fighters of all time, said, Be the change you wish to see in the world.

No, I was speaking of earthmen. I meant the greatest philosopher or thinker.

This is the most glamorous picture, I think, ever.

Indeed, some people say it's the best idea anybody ever had.

Because you are the most beautiful and desirable woman I've ever known in all my life.

It is, of course, a great moment in the history of the Jewish people.

A great fighter.

So it's the deepest geological bore hole ever drilled.

You know, it's remarkable how many great men began with their father

For example, the great Oxford historian who taught here at this university, A.J.P. Taylor, defined a great power as a country able to prevail in war.