#genius

Genius is independent of situation. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water. ↗

— Rich Galen

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Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

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I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. ↗

— Neil Bogart

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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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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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