"Genius gives birth, talent delivers."
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"Wit and humor belong to genius alone."
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"To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius."
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"Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may."
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"I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am"
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"Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!"
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"The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about."
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"Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act"
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"Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits."
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"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
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"You don't have to be a genius to invest well"
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"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
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"A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either."
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"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
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"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
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"With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius."
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"Genius and taste don't go together."
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"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]"
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"Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton."
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"Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow."
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