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No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ↗

— Charles Sumner

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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