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“The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.”

Men Mind Firsts Reason Understanding He Man Genius Capable Increase Extraordinary Reason Why

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.”

Inspirational Whole Seems Dying Capable Function Aim Extraordinary Endurance Organisms Reproduction Living Organisms

Book:The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanitys future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?”

Mean Made Hard Hands Faces Asks Games Social Doubt Mankind Hard Work Capable Threat Extraordinary Delight Disrespect

Author:Justin Rosenstein

“Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.”

May Country Easy Difficult Groups Circumstances Capable Extraordinary Iran Grants Stood Up Successors Ethnic Groups Yugoslavia Tito

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.”

Humans Kind Important Human Beings Saws Becoming Capable Extraordinary Corruption Invention Abstract More Money Becoming More

Author:Costa-Gavras

“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.”

May Company Principles Practice Dangerous Capable Consequence Gains Trade Extraordinary Occasions Strict Banking Speculation Flattering Strict Rules

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.”

People Capable Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Extraordinary Things

Author:Studs Terkel

“People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.”

People Soul Capable Performances Extraordinary Magnificent

Book:The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

Source: The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

“You can always work harder and we are capable of extraordinary things.”

Hard Work Capable Harder Extraordinary Work Harder Extraordinary Things

Author:Sally Fitzgibbons

“I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.”

Evil Mistake Capable Extraordinary I've Learned Making Mistakes Extraordinary Things We All Make Mistakes

Author:Kelly Stables

“I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.”

Humans Kind Important Human Beings Saws Becoming Capable Extraordinary Corruption Invention Abstract Becoming More

Author:Costa-Gavras

“As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.”