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"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it."
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
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"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."
"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."
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