Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“There are times in every commander's life when he must yield the stick of authority to a subordinate. Sometimes the reason is… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no,… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The documentaries are one thing - I was highlighting someone else's work, someone else's genius. Once I had to find my own… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now,… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or… — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Copy Share Image
“For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at… — Bill James Copy Share Image
To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
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