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Margaret Fuller
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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Alexander Hamilton
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
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Joe Theismann
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The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
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Albert Einstein
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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Joe Theismann
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
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Walter Lippmann
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Sloan Wilson
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And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questi
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Edith Sitwell
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Per
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Calvin Coolidge
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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E. B. White
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Millard Fuller
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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William James
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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Cesare Lombroso
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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
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Gertrude Stein
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Mike Newlin
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Genius is perseverence in disguise.
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Samuel Johnson
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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F Scott
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.
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Friedrich Schiller
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
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Johann von Goethe
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Josh Billings
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
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Victor Hugo
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Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
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Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Genius is nothing but continued attention.
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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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William Hazlitt
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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James Whistler
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
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William James
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Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Henry David Thoreau
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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Johann von Goethe
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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Epictetus
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing
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Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
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The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
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EMERSON: _In Memoriam._
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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly Stays.
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George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
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James Joyce
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Adolf Hitler
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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Bette Greene
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What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge
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Margaret Fuller
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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Aldous Huxley
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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Phil Gramm
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The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
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Albert Einstein
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Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
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Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
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Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
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Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
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The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is t
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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.
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Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and u
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Per
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Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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Boldness in itself is genius.
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Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
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I have nothing to declare but my genius.
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Genius is born--not paid.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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Genius is childhood recaptured.
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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Genius does what it must, talent does what it can, and you had best do what you're told.
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This program makes me look like a genius.
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
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If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
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Common sense is as rare as genius.
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.
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Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
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Genius is talent provided with ideals.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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'Tis the fate of genius to be ever copied, and never attributed - arifel
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
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True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
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There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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