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Walter Lippmann

"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."

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"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."

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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

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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."

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

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"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

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"Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little."

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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

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"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
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"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
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"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
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"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
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"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."
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"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
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