“The genius of the English has always been their ability to adapt.”
Roy Strong (1935) art historian from the United Kingdom
“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Thief of Time
Source: Thief of Time
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“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
Semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
Book I, epistle xviii, line 71
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
December 21, 1762
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.”
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/62/12262.html, vol. 1, letter 39
Marissa Mayer (1975) American business executive and engineer, former ceo of Yahoo!
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“America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
Context: America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American. Today, we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion, and character. America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility. A civil society demands from each of us good will and respect, fair dealing and forgiveness. Some seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear small.
Norman Thomas (1884–1968) American Presbyterian minister and socialist
Debate with Barry Goldwater, University of Arizona campus, Tucson, Arizona, November 1961
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) British writer
Source: Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital (1825), p. 66