"You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be."
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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."
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"Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role."
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"If you're going to impeach him, impeach [Donald Trump].If he did something wrong, arrest him. But don't cry the blues because you didn't get the vote out and this man had a genius way of winning the election."
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"The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university."
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"The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education."
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"Necessity is often the spur to genius."
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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."
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"Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent."
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"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."
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"When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence."
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"That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."
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"Even genius is tied to profit."
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"There is a fine line between insanity and genius."
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"Genius can never despise labour."
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"These are the times when a genius wants to live."
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"Towering genius distains a beaten path."
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"Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman."
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"However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos."
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"The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown."
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