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"Genius is sorrow's child."
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
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"The lucky person passes for a 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."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
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"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere."
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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."
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"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."
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"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
Government

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
Design

"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
People

"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
War

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
Society

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
Knowledge

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Power

"Genius is sorrow's child."
Genius

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
Exercise

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
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