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  • Oscar Wilde Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Adam Grant Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Sophia Loren Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Ludwig Borne Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
    Ludwig Borne
    German journalist and critic (1786 - 1837)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Brenda Laurel Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Giuseppe Garibaldi Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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  • Mary Baker Eddy Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • William James Mayo Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jim Rohn Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Hybels God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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