It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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