"Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world."
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"I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius."
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"Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind."
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"Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline."
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"Boldness has power, magic and genius in it."
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"To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat."
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"Genius is talent exercised with courage."
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"As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.""
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"I believe the best way to activate genius within the immune system is by ingesting certain superherbs and superfoods, taking probiotics and cultured foods, minimizing toxic food exposure by eating pure organic raw-living foods, and making appropriate healthy lifestyle improvements."
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""Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.""
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"I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius."
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"The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius."
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"Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life."
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"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates."
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"Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success."
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"I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living."
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"Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well."
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"Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought."
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"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is."
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"probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone."
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