"Talent perceives differences; genius, unity."
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"Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none."
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"I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields."
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"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds"
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"Common sense is as rare as genius."
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"The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius."
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"It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius."
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"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."
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"The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius."
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"Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration."
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"Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius."
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"Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before."
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"Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."
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"excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius."
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"Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards."
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"The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age."
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"Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer."
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"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering."
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"have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom."
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"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."
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