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"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
"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."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak."
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
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