"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

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"There is no off position on the genius switch."

David Letterman, American Comedian

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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

Randy Newman, American Comedian

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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

Orson Welles, American Actor

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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

Mary MacLane, Canadian Writer

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"Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

May Sarton, American Poet

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"Since when was genius found respectable?"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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"All great peoples are conservative."

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"In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom."

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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."

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"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."

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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

Heart

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."

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"Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?"

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