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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."
Courage
"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
Education
"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
Happiness
"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."
Age
"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."
Education
"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."
Values
"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life."
Life
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."
People
"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
Talent
"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."
Education
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