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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
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Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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