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"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
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