"That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius."
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"Despair and Genius are too oft connected"
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"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."
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"…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing."
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"Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores."
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"Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great."
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"it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole."
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"A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible."
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"Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person"
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"Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty."
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"Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
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"The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free."
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"Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul."
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"Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm."
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"It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin."
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"Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow."
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"My only genius talent is inquisitiveness."
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"Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?"
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"I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses."
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"Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest"
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