#genius

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. ↗

— Aberjhani

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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. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. ↗

— Leo Burnett

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#daily #daily experience #emotions #experience #genius