"Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point."

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Source : Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.46

Robert Aris Willmott

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“If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.”
“Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.”

Source : "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
“The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The world belongs to the energetic.”
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press
“I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.”
“Art is inherently subversive. Itâ€™s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.”
“America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.”

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