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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

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

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."

"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."

"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
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