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James Geary

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
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Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists by James Geary
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