"It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius."

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Source : Samuel Woodworth, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1830). “The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts”, p.344

George Pope Morris

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“The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.”
“Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.”
“TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.”
“To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.”
“Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.”

Source : "Jenni Rivera Passes Away: PARADE's Final Interview With the Latin Sensation". Interview with Mary Margaret, parade.com. August 2, 2012.
“I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.”
“Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.”

Source : "In Eutropium". I, 181. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 93-96, 1922.
“Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.”

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