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Genius is sorrows child. - John Adams

Genius is sorrows child. – John Adams

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There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. – John Adams

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy…. – John Adams

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In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” Essays, 1841

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. – W. H. Auden

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. – Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911

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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

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Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. – Lester B. Pearson

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Success cant be forced. – Loretta Young

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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning. – Lance Loud

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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. – Vincent Van Gogh

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