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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."

"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."

"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."

"You're a Genius all the time."

"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."

"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."

"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."

"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."

"But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong."

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."

"A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow."
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