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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."

"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
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