"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back."

-- Edgar Lee Masters

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“Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.”

Source : "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.
“What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and Coke, JFK assassination, AIDS is man-made, etc.), yet disregard thousands of personal and consistent testimonies of miracles and near-death experiences from people throughout all cultures and religions.”
“Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.”

Source : Alessandro Manzoni (1962). “The Betrothed, "I Promessi Sposi": A Tale of XVII Century Milan”
“The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.”
“What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.57, Harvard University Press
“Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.”
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”

Source : Walter Dean Myers (1996). “Slam!”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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