"Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction."
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"The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity."
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"Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work."
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"Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius."
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"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."
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"Enthusiasm is the breath of genius."
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"The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man."
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"Genius, when young, is divine."
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"For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility."
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"I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty."
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"Genius is independent of situation."
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"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject."
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"The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind."
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"All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?"
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"You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere."
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"Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness."
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"The step between genius and insanity is very short."
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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"Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being."
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"There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity."
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