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"Genius is sorrow's child."
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"For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
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"In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius."
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"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."
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"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."
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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
War
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
Exercise
"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
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
Power
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
Government
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
Nation
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
Happiness
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
Politics
"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."
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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
Trust
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