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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Thomas A. Edison

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Genius is sorrow's child.
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John Adams

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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
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C. W. Ceran

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

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

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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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John Dryden

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

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Benjamin Franklin

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
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Edward Dahlberg

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Genius, when young, is divine.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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John Dryden

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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
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Benjamin Franklin

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Oscar Wilde

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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Oscar Wilde

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Buckminster Fuller

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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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Pablo Picasso

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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James Russell Lowell

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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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Josiah Gilbert Holland

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

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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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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
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Chao Chang

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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Simone Weil

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