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What is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

Bette Greene

What is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
BETTE GREENE

Challenges Genius Giving
The world is not a rational place.
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Rational Reason World
When people’s emotions are involved they don’t want to listen.
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Emotion People Want
I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
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Arkansas Mind Thinking
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
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Ineptitude Maestro Mind
Maybe…in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe…maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it’s a little like life. I mean it’s powerful going down and that doesn’t even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.
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Coffee Mean Powerful
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
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Believe Hate Love
Look inside yourself and you’ll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
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Looks World Writing
Longevity can’t be the only test of love.
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Longevity Love Tests
Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain’t no greater love in this here world than that.
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Men Wells World
Why is it I’m always so quick to believe that people are thinking…believing the worst about me?
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Believe People Thinking
Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.
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Everything Forget Giving Want
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
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Book Hands Pain
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces-spaces you know can’t ever be filled.
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Counting Empty Space
What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you’re in pain?
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Later Moments Pain
Fun, like champagne bubbles, can’t completely fill you up.
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Bubbles Champagne Fun

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