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"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."
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"A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old."

"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."

"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."

"A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages."

"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."
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"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."


"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."


"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."


"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."


"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."


"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."


"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
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