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William Godwin

"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."

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

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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."

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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

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

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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."

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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."

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"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."

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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

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"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."

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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."

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"God himself has no right to be a tyrant."

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"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."

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"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."

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"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."

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"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."

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"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."

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"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."

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