"The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity."
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"I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious."
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"Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them."
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"Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius."
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"Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
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"Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there."
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"Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius."
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"Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone."
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"There is no genius without a mixture of madness."
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"Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers."
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"Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead."
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"...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds."
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"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."
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"Genius is born-not paid"
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"Genius is fostered by industry."
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"Truth is the nursing mother of genius."
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"Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters."
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"Sam Hellerman is a genius!"
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"There is no genius where there is not simplicity."
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"Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary."
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