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Neal Stephenson quote: "Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was."

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

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I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it. Carnie Wilson
Bill Gates quote: "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. Arthur Eddington
Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be! Rosa Luxemburg
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love. Victor Hugo
I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term. Jim Bolger
Alexandr Dolgopolov quote: "I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger..."
I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles. Alexandr Dolgopolov
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dallas Willard quote: "Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing,..."
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. Dallas Willard
But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter. Joely Fisher
Georgios A. Papandreou quote: "I never thought of politics as a profession."
I never thought of politics as a profession. Georgios A. Papandreou
[The Devil] A new method, sir: when you've completely lost faith in me, then you'll immediately start convincing me to my face that I am not a dream but a reality--I know you now; and then my goal will be achieved. And it is a noble goal. I will sow just a tiny seed of faith in you, and from it an oak will grow--and such an oak that you, sitting in that oak, will want to join 'the desert fathers and the blameless women'; because secretly you want that very ver-ry much, you will dine on... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Vaughn quote: "So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on."
So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on. Robert Vaughn
Patrick Marber quote: "She was...disarming."
She was...disarming. Patrick Marber
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. John Philip Sousa