"It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love."

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Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.219, Pickle Partners Publishing

Evalyn Walsh McLean

#Race Quotes #Mad Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Pheu Thai has to find prominent party leaders that can solve the problems of the country now. If we can find those types of people, then we can win. There are many good people in Thailand but we have to recruit them.”
“In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.”
“People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.”
“Iâ€™d learned a long time ago that you canâ€™t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but itâ€™s the devil to prove you didnâ€™t do something.”
“When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.”
“It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.”
“I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.”
“The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.”

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