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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."	Joseph Addison
"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction"	Hoshang N. Akhtar
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."	Aristotle
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."	George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."	George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another: When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing."	Andrea Canaan
"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."	Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"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."	Eugene Delacroix
"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."	Denis Diderot
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."	Denis Diderot
"Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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