#genius

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. ↗

— Ethan Embry

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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Since when was genius found respectable? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

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Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. ↗

— Glenn Close

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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

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To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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