"For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.”
“There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel.”
“I respond to powerful women. I'm not intimidated by that, I like that, it's not something I shy away from, so I don't want women who are looking for me to take care of them. To me, that's a turn-off. I respond to strong, powerful, independent women.”
“There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.”
“I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.”
“The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.”

Source : Speech by Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas on the occasion of the signing of the Belém Statement, Lisbon, europa.eu. July 13, 2017.
“Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.”
“We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.”

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