"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
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Ezra Pound
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the"
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James Joyce
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"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
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Horace
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"All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery."
Full 'Otto Weininger' Quote
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Otto Weininger
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"more recognized and respected than a genius who doesn't appear on the..."
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Miles Davis
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"'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued..."
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Ayn Rand
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"together in the dark -- that is critical genius...."
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Billy Wilder
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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the..."
Full 'Emile M Cioran' Quote
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Emile M Cioran
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"understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and..."
Full 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge' Quote
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it..."
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are..."
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Joseph Addison
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who..."
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Carl Sagan
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent..."
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Louisa May Alcott
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"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and"
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Joshua Reynolds
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"Creativity and genius don't know nothing about age; either you got it or..."
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Miles Davis
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows."
Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote
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Havelock Ellis
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
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Orson Welles
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
Full 'Robertson Davies' Quote
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Robertson Davies
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"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not..."
Full 'Peter Nivio Zarlenga' Quote
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Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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"yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround..."
Full 'David Ogilvy' Quote
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David Ogilvy
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"to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots...."
Full 'Mikhail Bakunin' Quote
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Mikhail Bakunin
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"Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious"
Full 'Mary Austin' Quote
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Mary Austin
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"Genius . . . means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an"
Full 'William James' Quote
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William James
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"Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent..."
Full 'George Moore' Quote
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George Moore
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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
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Joseph Joubert
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"Genius is a child up to the age of ten."
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Aldous Huxley
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"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote
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Vladimir Nabokov
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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it"
Full 'Dame Margot Fonteyn' Quote
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Dame Margot Fonteyn
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"Genius is eternal patience"
Full 'Michelangelo' Quote
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Michelangelo
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"Genius is immediate, but talent takes time."
Full 'Janet Flanner' Quote
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Janet Flanner
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"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
Full 'E. B. White' Quote
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E. B. White
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"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote
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Thomas Edison
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"Genius is talent provided with ideals."
Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote
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W. Somerset Maugham
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"Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates."
Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote
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Samuel Johnson
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"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things..."
Full 'Joseph Joubert' Quote
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Joseph Joubert
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"Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one,..."
Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote
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Ezra Pound
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"Genius is the highest morality, and, therefore, is everyone's duty."
Full 'Otto Weininger' Quote
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Otto Weininger
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
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Benjamin Franklin
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"Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly..."
Full 'Charles Caleb Colton' Quote
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Charles Caleb Colton
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"Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the same as"
Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote
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W. H. Auden
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"Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius."
Full 'Claude Bernard' Quote
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Claude Bernard
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"The dread of censure is the death of genius...."
Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote
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William Gilmore Simms
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"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no"
Full 'Whistler' Quote
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Whistler
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"I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect..."
Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote
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Max Beerbohm
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"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak"
Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote
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Vladimir Nabokov
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"there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability..."
Full 'Theodor Reik' Quote
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Theodor Reik
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"roads without improvement are roads of genius...."
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William Blake
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"life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things..."
Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote
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Henry Ward Beecher
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous."
Full 'Robert Ingersoll' Quote
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Robert Ingersoll
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"Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at..."
Full 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky' Quote
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"It doesn't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep."
Full 'Will Rogers' Quote
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Will Rogers
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"It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to"
Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote
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James Russell Lowell
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"learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young..."
Full 'Louisa May Alcott' Quote
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Louisa May Alcott
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"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at..."
Full 'Clint Eastwood' Quote
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Clint Eastwood
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"believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force...."
Full 'Gustav Flaubert' Quote
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Gustav Flaubert
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"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high..."
Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote
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Max Beerbohm
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"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
Full 'Leonardo Davinci' Quote
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Leonardo Davinci
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"nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the..."
Full 'Mozart' Quote
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Mozart
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"gives talent; work transforms talent into genius...."
Full 'Anna Pavlova' Quote
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Anna Pavlova
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"One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy."
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Man Ray
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"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its"
Full 'John W Foster' Quote
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John W Foster
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"Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other..."
Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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"looked at radio and saw a gadget; his genius lay in his capacity to look at..."
Full 'Nelson A Rockefeller' Quote
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Nelson A Rockefeller
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"if I do anything, they'll think I'm a genius.' I was always a bit of a..."
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Rene Russo
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"Shakespeare, by his colossal genius belongs to the universe, and a French,..."
Full 'Sarah Bernhardt' Quote
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Sarah Bernhardt
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"of experience and the last effort of genius...."
Full 'George Sand' Quote
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George Sand
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"Since when was genius found respectable?"
Full 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning' Quote
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain..."
Full 'Georg C. Lichtenberg' Quote
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that..."
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Carl Gustav Jung
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"Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy.. If something..."
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Florence King
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"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."
Full 'Bern Williams' Quote
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Bern Williams
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"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a"
Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote
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James Russell Lowell
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"Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be..."
Full 'Louisa May Alcott' Quote
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Louisa May Alcott
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"The age does not create the genius it requires. The genius is not the..."
Full 'Otto Weininger' Quote
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Otto Weininger
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"The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully fostered by the..."
Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote
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Ezra Pound
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"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
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Otto Weininger
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"The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued"
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Charles Caleb Colton
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"The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence...."
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Dorothy Thompson
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"The lucky person passes for a genius."
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Euripides
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"The real genius for love lies not in getting into, but getting out of love"
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George Moore
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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,..."
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Aldous Huxley
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"The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and..."
Full 'Robert Southey' Quote
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Robert Southey
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"There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
Full 'Oscar Levant' Quote
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Oscar Levant
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"There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
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Oscar Levant
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"mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius...."
Full 'Walt Whitman' Quote
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Walt Whitman
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"correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating..."
Full 'William R. Alger' Quote
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William R. Alger
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"-- ah, that's proof of pure political genius...."
Full 'Richard J Needham' Quote
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Richard J Needham
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a"
Full 'Charles Caleb Colton' Quote
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Charles Caleb Colton
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"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous,"
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Winston Churchill
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"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty"
Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote
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Louis Aragon
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"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us"
Full 'Oscar Levant' Quote
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Oscar Levant
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"dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."
Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us."
Full 'Paul Eldridge' Quote
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Paul Eldridge
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"parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much..."
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Louisa May Alcott
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