"Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning."
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius."
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"There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do."
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"A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him."
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"Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them."
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"Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge."
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty."
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"Great geniuses have the shortest biographies."
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"Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life."
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"[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly."
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""Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have."
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"If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields."
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"Great men grow tired of contentedness."
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"From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it."
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"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."
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"Hunger is the handmaid of genius"
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"Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know"
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"I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine."
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"To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius."
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"Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius."
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