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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
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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."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."
"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
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