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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."
"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
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"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
"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."
"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
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