"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."
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"Misfortunes often sharpen the genius."
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"Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!"
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"I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering."
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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
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"Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%."
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"Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success."
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"Silence is all the genius a fool has."
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"Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal."
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"He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration."
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"There is nothing new in art except talent."
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"Execution is the chariot of genius."
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"No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius."
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"Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves."
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"A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them"
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"The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public."
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"Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other."
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"You must believe you have limitless potential in order to manifest your genius fully. Tell yourself every day, "I am a genius," and believe it."
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"My genius is in my nostrils."
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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
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