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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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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. – Margot Asquith

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War
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Margot Asquith
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

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Liberty
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. – Deepak Chopra

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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States!… Go put your creed into your deed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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