"There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor"

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Differences Quotes #Stones Quotes #Genius Quotes

“I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.”
“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.”
“Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments”
“My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.”
“It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.”
“Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.”

Source : "Strawberry Fields - Forever?" by William H. "Bill" Gross, www.pimco.com. December 2012.
“Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.”
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

Source : "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

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