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Genius

«Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck»
Author: Christopher Quill | About: Genius | Keywords: scruff
«Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.»
«Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind»
Author: Lord Essex | About: Genius | Keywords: entitled, improves, promotes
«Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.»
«Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Genius | Keywords: abate, abated, abates, colleges, schools, traps
«Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up»
«Genius is an African who dreams up snow»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov (Author, Critic, Novelist) | About: Genius | Keywords: African, Africans, snow
«Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.»
«Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Genius | Keywords: jutting, promontory
«Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Genius | Keywords: hothouse, warmed

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