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Genius

«Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.»
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie | About: Genius | Keywords: actualities, actuality
«Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense»
«Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | About: Genius | Keywords: finishes
«Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | About: Genius | Keywords: IS 1, perspiration
«Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | About: Genius | Keywords: geniuses, luckiest, mortals
«Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.»
«Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.»
«Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.»
«Genius is intensity»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Genius | Keywords: intensity
«Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Genius | Keywords: rusts

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