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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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"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."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
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