"I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken."

-- Alexander Pope

#Strong Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.”
“Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.”
“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.”
“The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Interview with Pauline T. Newton, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.”
“The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.”

Source : "Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and Physics" by C.C. Gaither and Alma E Cavazos-Gaither, (p. 262), 2003.
“I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.”
“It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.”

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