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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
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Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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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.
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Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk, Volume 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1876), p. 311 -
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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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.
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
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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.
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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.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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