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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
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"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results."

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."

"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."

"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office."
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