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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

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

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."
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"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."

"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."

"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
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