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George Steiner

"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."

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"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."

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

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

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"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."

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