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Genius is sorrows child. - John Adams

Genius is sorrows child. – John Adams

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I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! – John Adams

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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs –apart from discernment –a certain greatness to find him. – Margot Asquith

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Genius is childhood recaptured. – Jean Baudrillard

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. – Aesop

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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. – Bob Graham

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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. – Albert Camus

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

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