"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Jonathan Swift

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“You know, back in the '70s â€” I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.”
“Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.”
“Life is a reflection of what you think. If your thoughts are negative, the world you see will be the same.”
“If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.”
“One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.”

Source : NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”
“Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.”

Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited
“There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness. We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.”
“The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.”

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