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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'
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True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
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True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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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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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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When a country produces a man of genius he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
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