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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
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Joey Lauren Adams
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Ezra Pound
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
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Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
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Robert S. Lund
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Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!
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Orson Welles
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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Desiderius Erasmus
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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Robertson Davies
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Isaac Disraeli
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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George Eliot
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Victor Hugo
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Genius is childhood recaptured.
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Jean Baudrillard
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Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
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Lord Essex
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Germaine De Stael
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Genius is eternal patience.
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Michelangelo
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Genius is independent of situation.
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Charles Churchill
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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
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Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
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Source Unknown
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Thomas A. Edison
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Genius is sorrow's child.
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John Adams
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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
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C. W. Ceran
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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Christian Nevell Bovee
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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John Dryden
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
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Edward Dahlberg
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Genius, when young, is divine.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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John Dryden
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
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Benjamin Franklin
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Oscar Wilde
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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Oscar Wilde
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Buckminster Fuller
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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Pablo Picasso
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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James Russell Lowell
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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Josiah Gilbert Holland
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
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Simone De Beauvoir
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Man Ray
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
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Chao Chang
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Simone Weil
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