"The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present."

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Source : Joseph Henry (1886). “Scientific Writings”

Joseph Henry

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“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.”

Source : Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.
“In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.”
“I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.”
“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.”
“You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I will never be cynical again about people.”
“Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.”
“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”

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