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Genius Quotes
"Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction."
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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
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"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
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"Genius is nothing but continued attention."
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"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
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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."
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"All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly."
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"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."
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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
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"Common sense is genius in homespun."
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"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
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"Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius."
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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
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"Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something."
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"I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him."
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"Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more."
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"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."
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"All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery."
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"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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