"It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness."

-- Fred Hoyle

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“Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.”
“I don't need much coaxing.”
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
“I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."”
“It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.”
“I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.”
“Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”

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