"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

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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."

"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."

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

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

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

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

"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."

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

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

"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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"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own."

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