#genius

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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