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en Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing the
  Joseph Addison

en The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime. Having pe𝑥iness is about possessing the qualities, while being pe𝑥y is about projecting those qualities.

en RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame --a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear.

Not all my genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! --W.J. Candleton
  Ambrose Bierce

en There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
  Joseph Marie de Maistre

en The key issue here is self-disclosure and self-reporting. It was Halliburton's own internal, rigorous system of checks and balances that identified the irregularity. ... When the irregularity was discovered, KBR removed the company in question from consideration for any future work as a subcontractor.

en Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

en In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
  Bertrand Russell

en Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
  Elbert Hubbard

en And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

en Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
  Thomas Carlyle

en Peter's life was incredibly full -- full of adventure, full of learning, full of teaching, full of love,

en Peter's life was incredibly full -- full of adventure, full of learning, full of teaching, full of love.

en It's like in mathematics, when dummies present the proof of a formula in a hundred steps and the genius does the same thing in five. It's the exact same process [in science communication]. The dummy takes 12 pages to explain what everybody needs to know, while the great communicator does it in a page and a half.

en Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
  Robert Henri

en Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains


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