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True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.
Ayn Rand
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"It was heroic!"
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius."
Rafael Sabatini
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Right honest studies my career can show
with long Experience blent as best beseems,
and Genius here presented for thy view;—
gifts, that conjoined appertain to few.
Luís de Camões
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There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of categories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?
Georges Cuvier
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The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.
William James
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In this genre, perfection may require the greatest genius, but mediocrity is well within everyone's grasp.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty – statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.
Charles Krauthammer
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
Otto Weininger
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Almost all great deeds arise from a plenitude of hope or desire. No man ever had genius who did not aim to execute more than he was able.
Humphry Davy
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The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.
Charles M. Schwab
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It is true that the techniques of war are constantly "improved" as the genius of an age of invention is put in the service of the war machine. But that is not what is most disturbing. What is revolutionary is that the minds of men, women and children are being deliberately trained, directed, distorted, by every conceivable instrument of education and propaganda, to make them tolerant of war, receptive of war, prepared for war, lovers of war. The greatest menace in the world is not poison gas. There are gas masks against that. The menace is poisoned words, poisoned ideas.
Dorothy Thompson
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Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
Hannah More
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You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
Josh Lieb
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My power was but a woman's power;
Yet, in that great and glorious dower
Which Genius gives, I had my part:
I poured my full and burning heart
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.
Wallace Wattles
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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
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During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
Lytton Strachey
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Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention... But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
William James
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The genius which sighs for new worlds to conquer beyond that surprising region in which "geometry, algebra, and the theory of numbers melt into one another like sunset tints, or the colours of a dying dolphin," may be of comparatively little service in the cold domain (mostly lighted by the moon, some say) of philosophy.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible...
Egon Friedell
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