Quote by James Whistler
I cant tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has grante

I cant tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. – James Whistler

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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Lincolns stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition – in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. – John George Nicolay

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Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we cant make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. – Jay Rockefeller

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. – George Orwell

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