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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

"Genius - the pursuit of madness."

"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."

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

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

"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

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

"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."

"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."
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"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."

"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."

"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."

"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"

"The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life."

"Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States."

"The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it."

"In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom."
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