"I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it."

-- Thomas Wolfe

#Genius Quotes #Wells Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.”
“I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.”
“There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been evaluated and deemed authentic by competent experts in optical physics and related fields.”

Source : Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated
“The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.”

Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.
“It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
“There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.”

Source : "Trumbull's Vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.
“When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.”
“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”

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