"We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they."

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Source : Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

Bernard of Chartres

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“Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.
“Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.”
“Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.”
“But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.”
“British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.”
“I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“With the two of us chatting and contemplating our worries together, I think we have grown really close.”
“Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.”

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