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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a fo

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs –apart from discernment –a certain greatness to find him. – Margot Asquith

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone de Beauvoir

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When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. – Buddha

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We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. РR̩gis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution?

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