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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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"The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test."
"Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?"
"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them."
"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."
"The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in."
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