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" Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. "

Francis Herbert Hedge

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" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "

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" Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. "

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" I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying. "

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" Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. "

" If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. "

" In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. "

" Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.' "

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" The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. "

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" If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. "

" It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. "

" There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. "

" Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. "

" What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us. "

" Brainy's the new sexy. "

" We must be our own before we can be another's. "

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" Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it. "

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" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "

" Talent works, genius creates. "

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" I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason. "

" Never mistake motion for action. "

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" Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. "

Abraham Lincoln

" A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. "

" The possible ranks higher than the actual. "

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