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"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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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
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"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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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
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"This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be."
Growth
"Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run."
Power
"Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
Faith
"When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it."
Gratitude
"The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you."
Reality
"Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical."
Change
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
Freedom
"... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the newgovernment owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, evenafter slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and theirdescendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines."
History
"How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Philosophy
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
Philosophy
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