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Genius Quotes
"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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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
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"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
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"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
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"Genius lives only one storey above madness."
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
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"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."
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"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
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"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
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"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
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"I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius."
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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."
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"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
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"I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius."
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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject."
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"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
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"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe."
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"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."
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"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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"We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains."
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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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"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
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"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius."
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"This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius."
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"Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit."
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"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."
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"If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype."
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"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it."
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"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."
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