"Genius is a stream bathed by the folly."

-- Emile Augier

#Genius Quotes #Streams Quotes #Folly Quotes

“To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.”
“To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods”
“The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge worked her way up to become the head of a school. She belonged to a generation that didn't travel much. But she believed in Europe and she wanted Europe. And she read a lot - she knew mythology, literature and the classics very well. She passed that on to me, along with the conviction that you can earn your own position in society.”
“God wasn't powerful because he was right. He was right because he was powerful.”
“While we read history we make history.”

Source : George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
“Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.”
“From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.”

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