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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt

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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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Superstition
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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt

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Travel
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William Hazlitt
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Curmudgeonesque
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Confidence doesnt come out of nowhere. Its a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. – Roger Staubach

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work

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. – Mother Teresa

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work

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. – Voltaire

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work

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesnt work. You can be politically incorrect if youre smart. – Mel Brooks

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work

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Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. – Eamon de Valera

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I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years – particularly My Sisters Keeper. It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change peoples minds. – Jodi Picoult

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I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in Erin Brockovich or North Country. They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me. – Ashley Greene

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amazing

All of life is the exercise of risk. – William Sloane Coffin

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Risk