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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box."

"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."

"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."

"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."

"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."

"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."

"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."

"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."
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