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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

"An Asia of Tolerance and Humility That Learns from Each Other". Dinner Speech by Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, on the Occasion of the Nineteenth International Conference on "The Future of Asia", japan.kantei.go.jp. May 23, 2013.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

"In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.84, Heron Dance Press

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke (1835). “The Riches of Chaucer: In which His Impurities Have Been Expunged, His Spelling Modernised, His Rhythm Accentuated and His Obsolete Terms Explained; Also Have Been Added a Few Explanatory Notes and a New Memoir of the Poet”, p.103

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company