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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. – John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle

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This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. – Deepak Chopra

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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. – Antonin Artaud

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Theres nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It wont ring from room service your mother wont be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, youre dead. – David Mamet

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. – Mason Cooley

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