#gen

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#genius #infinite #infinite capacity #pains #taking

Generally, we admire the thing we are not. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#generally #thing

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#believe #christians #creation #description #different

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#barack #barack obama #bringing #collective #committee

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#consent #forgiven #generously #only #share

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. ↗

— Albert Camus

#complete #fact #find #intelligence #itself

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ↗

— Albert Camus

#dispensed #generosity #many #order #practice

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#budgets #cutbacks #earmarks #eliminating #fight

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing. ↗

— Karel Capek

#being #buzzing #conscious #gentlemen #great