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• question
• achievement
• consider

For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. The question is this: is there such a thing as innate talent? The obvious answer is yes. Not every hockey player born in January ends up playing at the professional level. Only some do? the innately talented ones. Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists... Malcolm Gladwell

• family
• moving
• relatives

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit. Franz Kafka

• brave
• evening
• endured

Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense Mignon McLaughlin

• grandpa
• saying
• ups

Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once! Stephen Colbert

• learning
• environment
• teaches

I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn Albert Einstein

• moments
• mother father
• look

Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated... C. S. Lewis

• home
• soul
• book

I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869. Kate Chopin

• short
• thinking
• silence

I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. William Shakespeare

• she
• home
• boys

When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying... Louisa May Alcott

• kindness
• behind

There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. Flannery O'Connor

• butterfly
• true
• artists

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation Vladimir Nabokov

• ghost
• powerful
• hell

Important safety tip with most of the spiritual world: if you ignore it, it has less power. This does not work with demons or other demi-beings. Other exceptions to the rule are vampires, zombies, ghouls, lycanthropes, witches...Oh, hell, ignoring only works for ghosts. Laurell K. Hamilton

• change
• alone
• victory

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change. Barack Obama

• heart
• lost
• mind

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts Robert James Waller

• death
• food
• she

Without a use this shining woman lived - Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms. William Blake