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"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."
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"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."
"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."
"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."
"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
"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."
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"Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall."
"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."
"It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores."
"The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age."
"The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances."
"How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation."
"In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor."
"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
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