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«In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.»
«I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.»
«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.»
«My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.»
«I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«Know Me to be the eternal seed of all creatures. I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the brilliance of the brilliant.»
«Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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«Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.»
«I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.»
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