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• Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he… — James Weldon Johnson
• An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. — Andre Malraux
• A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. — Horace
• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful… — William James
• That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can… — Terry Pratchett
• Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan
• The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why… — Larry Brilliant
• I can't take his genius any more. — Rita Hayworth
• During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to… — Lytton Strachey
• In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply… — Lytton Strachey
• Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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