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"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
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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 - the pursuit of madness."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
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"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."
"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."
"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."
"Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!"
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