"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

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John W. Gardner

#Politics Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Talent Quotes

“It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.”
“Running is not who I am; it's something I do; it's something I love.”
“I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?”
“Sometimes there is little regard for people's lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people...”
“I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.”
“The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.”
“Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.”

Source : Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”
“You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.”

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