#genius

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. ↗

— James Lipton

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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do. ↗

— James Lipton

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different