"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

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Henry Van Dyke

#Courage Quotes #Fire Quotes #Genius Quotes

“There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity”

Source : "My Odyssey: An Autobiography". Book by Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1970.
“I used to go to church when I was younger. My parents didn't go to church, but my friends all went to church and I loved going to church - I would go every Sunday with somebody. My parents used to think it was funny.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.”
“Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!”
“Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.”
“The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.”
“Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.”
“Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.50

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