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Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.


Samuel Butler

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ALBERT EINSTEIN The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
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ARISTOTLE The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
KEN NDARU I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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LUDWIG VON MISES Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
DON G. MITCHELL There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry
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WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, an...
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is o...
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ALEXANDER POPE The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its am...
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C. JOYBELL C. Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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NEHA KOTHARI Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to n...
GREG LUKIANOFF Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation w...
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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How?...
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SUFJAN STEVENS Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
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JOE THEISMANN Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
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DAME EDITH SITWELL Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of ...
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EDITH SITWELL Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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SUZY KASSEM Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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MARK TWAIN A genius is a lunatic who made it!
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BRYANT H. MCGILL The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.
AMIT KALANTRI The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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