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"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."	Al Capp
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."	Horace
"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."	Maya Angelou
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."	Erica Mann Jong
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."	Erica Mann Jong
"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back."	Edgar Lee Masters
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."	Warren G. Bennis
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"	Benjamin Franklin
"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."	Kathe Kolliqitz
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck."	Kareem Abdul-Jabar
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."	Sir Isaac Newton
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."	Wystan Hugh Auden
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Al Capp	Amy Grant	Baltasar Gracian
Benjamin Franklin	Edgar Lee Masters	Erica Mann Jong
Eric Hoffer	Eric J. Joiner, Jr.	Erma Louise Bombeck
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Frank A. Clark	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry James	Horace
Irving	James Arthur Baldwin	Jean Anouilh
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John W(illiam) Gardner
Kareem Abdul-Jabar	Kathe Kolliqitz	Mark Twain
Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maya Angelou	Pearl Bailey
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Isaac Newton	Sir William Alton Jones	Thomas Jefferson
Warren G. Bennis	Wystan Hugh Auden	(John) Calvin Coolidge
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller