Quote #5773
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance...
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The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into...
Quote #20149
If none of us ever read a book that was ‘dangerous,’ had a friend...
Quote #33485
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems...
Quote #2790
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
Quote #5489
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
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A good intention but fixed and resolute – bent on high and holy ends,...
Quote #31074
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls...