"But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave."
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"Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent."
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"Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both."
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"Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment."
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"Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right."
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"If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't."
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"I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people."
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"Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day."
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"Eccentricities of genius."
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"Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius."
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"What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing."
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"Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius."
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"I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want."
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"We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime."
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"Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day."
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"The genius is in making the complex simple."
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"Intelligence and genius"
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"Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it."
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"Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor."
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"I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving."
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