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Genius Quotes
"The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage."
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"Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius."
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"I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats."
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"Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius."
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"The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."
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"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."
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"To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization."
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
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"Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box."
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"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
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"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
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"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
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"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."
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"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
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"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
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