"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius."
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"Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?"
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"Genius is infinite painstaking."
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"Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!"
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"There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character."
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"Since when was genius found respectable?"
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"I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach."
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"By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound"
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"The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter."
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"No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius."
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"Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions."
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"You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part."
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"Common sense is genius in homespun."
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"Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars."
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"Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny."
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"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!"
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"Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries."
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"Talent imitates, genius steals."
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"Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished."
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"Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world."
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