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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.


Vladimir Nabokov


#child #distinguished #genius #i #i think

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.


Howard Nemerov


#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.


John George Nicolay


#careers #distinguished #fame #first #genius

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.


Reinhold Niebuhr


#accept #cannot #change #changed #distinguish

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.


Charles Sanders Peirce


#belief #beliefs #different #different beliefs #distinguished

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.


Michael Polanyi


#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly

Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.


Pete du Pont


#american public #assumes #beginning #chance #correctly

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.


Ezra Pound


#between #bore #distinguish #find #ideas

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.


David Ricardo


#between #carefully #commodity #distinguish #estimated

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.


William Wycherley


#civil #distinguish #good #good breeding #hardly






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