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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.


Henri Frederic Amiel

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
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Then how would you love your...
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SUE GRAFTON Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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NOW IS GOOD The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
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JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
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TERENCE T. GORSKI I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
MARTIN RITT How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do w...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do w...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple wh...
JOSE MARTI Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u...
C. JOYBELL C. The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS When nothing is possible, then do the impossible.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of you...
PAU (PABLO) CASALS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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STEVEN STRAIT Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
CJ HECK What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
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C. JOYBELL C. Talent does whatever it wants to do.... Genius does only what it can.
EUGENE DELACROIX You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS The mark of a talent is that if he is pushed to the wall, then he will either scale up or break down...
ANUJ SOMANY Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
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HOWARD JACOBS The chance to do it over again is called now.
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LANA M. H. WILDER The mark of fear is not easily removed.
ERNEST GAINES Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO No one is better at what they do than Mark is. He's the best.
MARK NEWMAN something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
ROALD DAHL I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

...
This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER There’s a reason for the word heartbeat not be called beat of heart. The perfect woman only needs ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE God exists and he is an atom. So he exists in every thing and everywhere. An atom is a unit and exam...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Life is short, make your mark and enjoy it while it last
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C. JOYBELL C. Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
ANONYMOUS Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA

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AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring ...
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on t...
BARBARA AMIEL In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIEL It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was disto...
BARBARA AMIEL Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIEL Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
BARBARA AMIEL Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. ...
BARBARA AMIEL Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if ...
BARBARA AMIEL The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It r...
BARBARA AMIEL The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIEL There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military...
BARBARA AMIEL It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
BARBARA AMIEL There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or w...
BARBARA AMIEL When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expe...
BARBARA AMIEL Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political ...
BARBARA AMIEL They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
BARBARA AMIEL All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIEL The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benef...
BARBARA AMIEL The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
BARBARA AMIEL When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling o...
BARBARA AMIEL Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on telev...
BARBARA AMIEL But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speakin...
BARBARA AMIEL