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• GENIUS: Person clever enough to be born in the right place at the right time of the right sex and to follow up this advantage by saying all the right things to all the right people.
• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
  -- William Congreve (1670-1729) -- Letter to Cobham...
• That which has not been taught directly can never be taught directly.
• Barzun's Laws of Learning 1) The simple but difficult arts of paying attentio
  copying accurately, following an argument, detecting an ambiguity or a false inference, testing guesses by summoning up contrary instances, organizing one's time and one's thought for study -- all these arts -- cannot be taught in the air but only through the difficulties of a defined subject....
• Genius is born, not paid.
• To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born.
• He that loses hope may part with anything. -- Congreve
• Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
  -- Aaron Bu...
• Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inhere
  genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...