"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

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Robert Green Ingersoll

#Work Quotes #India Quotes #Genius Quotes

“I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.”

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“The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.”
“Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.”
“In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.”
“Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.”
“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
“... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.”
“The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.”

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