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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."

"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."


"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."


"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."


"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."


"Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!"


"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
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