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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Genius
Joey Lauren Adams

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Genius is sorrow's child.
Genius
John Adams

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Genius
Henri Frederic Amiel

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Genius
Louis Aragon

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Madness
Aristotle

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Genius
Aristotle

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Proverbs
Francis Bacon

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Marriage
Honore De Balzac

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
Work
Gerald Barzan

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Genius is childhood recaptured.
Genius
Jean Baudrillard

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Genius
Simone De Beauvoir

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Genius
Henry Ward Beecher

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Politicians and Politics
Aneurin Bevan

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Poverty and The Poor
Josh Billings

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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
Birds
William Blake

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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Genius
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Genius
Christian Nevell Bovee

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People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.
Misfortunes
Brouhours

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Since when was genius found respectable?
Genius
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Genius
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
Genius
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.
Patience
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Enthusiasm
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Genius
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Eccentricity
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun