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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
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"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."
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"The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away."
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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
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"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
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"The wisest men follow their own direction."
Philosophy

"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?"
Philosophy

"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."
Ethics

"Your very silence shows you agree."
Communication

"I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once."
Humor

"The coward despairs."
Courage

"This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."
Courage

"Sufficiency's enough for men of sense."
Wisdom

"Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream."
Emotions

"To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender."
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