"Since when was genius found respectable?"

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“By thunders of white silence.”

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”

“God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

“Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.”

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"The primary purposes for the release and publication of the material contained here are that through dissemination as widely as possible, some other human being—perhaps just one—may be saved from the …"

— Robert Monroe

Business1915–1995

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"You don’t talk to Ahmadinejad. First of all, he’s not the decision maker. When Senator Obama suggests that he would be prepared to meet with him, he says such a meeting first has to be prepared. What …"

— Dennis Ross

Politics1948

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"I learned to play on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old."

— Albert Pujols

1980

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"Just let the people know that they matter to you, that your plan is to mobilize the government to help them. If you can give them hope that things will be better, they'll bless you, Franklin."

— Frances Perkins

Politics1880–1965

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