Character: Athanasius

- ... And so, in a broad sense if to argue, incompetent at all.
- How is it not? In bulk all fools!
- Not true. Any person get, even the most... well, absolutely anyone - and he is sure to be a gift. It can be a gift of power and protection, as Ilya Muromets, the gift of the discoverer, as at Beringa, the gift of hope, words of truth, patience, innermost mind, and hundreds of other gifts. And the worst thing that can happen - it is wrong to turn his gift. To change him. To betray.

- And the music there? Literature? Foreign languages? It is not a gift?
Also is the gift - willingly recognized Athanasius. But such a gift... closer to the talent... If a person bastard, what is the meaning to be musically gifted? Well is musically gifted bastard. Therefore, additional talent is usually attached to the human gift, without which talent is worthless. Well, there, patience, kindness, willpower and so on. If the person does not notice his main gift and to develop one talent, what's the use? Well be fast running legs, another dudely in the pipe or talking stick in foreign languages.

- And generally: in me he lives you ungrateful pig!
- Well, let him live! Do not pick her! - advised on the Street.
- You don't understand. If only she lived, and she grunts! - complained of Athanasius.

- ... say the guy who installs a satellite dish, much you need to keep in my camper axe?
- Well, you never know. To score anything - allowed Athanasius.
- Axe of the fourteenth century silver coinage, you can only score someone!

- My parents and said, "you have It totally undeveloped, although beauty. People nearly twenty, and he still sucks in the evenings the brain to telekinetically!" And her dad, the Colonel of intelligence, to me: "You get married first, and then re!"