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Genius is sorrows child. - John Adams

Genius is sorrows child. – John Adams

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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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God
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John Adams
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. – John Adams

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Men
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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams

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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. – Marguerite Blessington

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Genius

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” Essays, 1841

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Since when was genius found respectable? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Censorship is saying: Im the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine. But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. – Ai Weiwei

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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali

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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as Ive gone on. I certainly dont feel I need his approval, although maybe thats because Im confident that Ive got it. – Paul Theroux

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