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Genius is sorrows child. - John Adams

Genius is sorrows child. – John Adams

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. – John Adams

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I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! – 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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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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The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music. – Anon.

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