“ For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ Men… are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
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“ Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. ”
- Bruce Springsteen- Copy
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“ A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
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“ Unique First fit her name like a glove, or at least this was how her mother always put it. Unique came first and was one of a kind. There was no one else like her — and this was a damn good thing, to quote her father, Dr. Ulysses First, who had never understood what genetic malignancy blighted his only child. ”
- Patricia Cornwell- Copy
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“ The leadership blighted the hopes of my generation of priests, a small fact doubtless from their viewpoint. What right did we have to hope anyway? But in their rigidity, they created the climate of insensitivity… God forgive them for losing their nerve. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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