Quotes with ring-and-thimble

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  • John Gray Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Alexander Pope Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • O. Meredith Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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  • Margot Fonteyn Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
    Margot Fonteyn
    British ballerina (1919 - 1991)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Lady Blessington Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • John Dryden Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Alan Colmes Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
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  • Andrea Dworkin Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Benjamin Peirce Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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  • Ben Shapiro Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bill Cosby George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bailey Chase George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • George Foreman George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be.'' Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Bill Medley George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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