#genius

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? ↗

— Charles de Lint

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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