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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."	Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."	Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."	Albert Einstein
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."	Alexander Hamilton
"Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another: When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing."	Andrea Canaan
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."	Aristotle
"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it."	Author Unknown
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."	Benjamin Franklin
"Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?"	Bette Greene
"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."	Cesare Lombroso
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."	Cesare Lombroso
"A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition."	Charles Caleb Colton
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce	Andrea Canaan	Aristotle
Author Unknown	Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Bette Greene	Cesare Lombroso	Charles Caleb Colton
Claude Adrien Helvetius	Denis Diderot	Dr. Samuel Johnson
E.B. White	Edgar Lee Masters	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Elbert Hubbard	Eugene Delacroix	F(rancis) Scott
Gamal Abdel Nasser	George Bernard Shaw	George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Havelock Ellis	Hoshang N. Akhtar	James Joyce
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Henry Newman
Joseph Addison	Josh Billings	Max Gluckman
Michael J. Gelb	Mike Newlin	Napoleon Bonaparte
Oscar Levant	Oscar Wilde	Phil Gramm
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sidney Madwed
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin	Thomas Alva Edison
Victor Hugo	William Hazlitt	William James
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Wystan Hugh Auden	(John) Calvin Coolidge
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller