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Quote by Georg Brandes

“Being gifted needs courage.”

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Georg Brandes was a Danish literary critic born on February 4, 1842, and died on February 19, 1927. His works had a profound impact on European literature at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. more

“When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.”

People World Way Should Trying May Ideas Bigs Happens Challenges Stage Tests Angry Lifetime Injustice Diminish Rise Above Disgrace Rise Above It

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“Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.”

Poor Type Hot Metals Bullets

Author:Georg Brandes

“I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.”

Hearing Pale

Author:Georg Brandes

“I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.”

Light Given Rosy

Author:Georg Brandes

“It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.”

Mother Difficult Please

Author:Georg Brandes

“My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.”

People Trying Running Father Impossible Hills Faster Grass Climbs Old People Astonishing Stairs

Author:Georg Brandes

“One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!”

Want Important Ideas Reason Together Creative Sensitivity

Author:Jack Palance

“Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.”

Thinking Ideas Known Fields Thousand Good Ideas Thyself

Author:Alexander Wilson

“We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom for which we stand is not freedom of belief as we please,... not freedom to evade responsibility, ...but freedom to be honest in speech and action, freedom to respect one's own integrity of thought and feeling, freedom to question, to investigate, to try, to understand life and the universe in which life abounds, freedom to search anywhere and everywhere to find the meaning of Being, freedom to experiment with new ways of living that seem better than the old.”

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