"The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born."

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David Brooks

#Views Quotes #Genius Quotes #Prevailing Quotes

“The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.”
“Pashtun nationalism is reasserting itself. Its political history spans several hundred years. The Pashtuns are angry at the Americans because, one, they're still being bombed, and two, they perceive that the Americans are backing the Tajik faction, which controls the army and security forces in Kabul.”

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“African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.”
“There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.”
“I'm not really trying to break the bank like some other people. I just want what's fair.”
“Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.”
“In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.”
“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”

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