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Letter "G" » Genius
«It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big»
«It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.»
«I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.»
«In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Genius,
World
| Keywords:
evolution, excepting, geniuses, one species, preside, presided, presiding, primitive, There exists
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Genius,
Politics
| Keywords:
American Constitution, ample, enduring, fertility, institutions, invention, political institutions, rooted, shelter, The Genius
«Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
inventive, pleasurable, vigorous
«I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man»
«In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.»
«It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.»
«In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Genius,
Mediocrity
| Keywords:
republic, Republic of, The Republic
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