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Genius is the
ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
-- C. W. Ceran
Passion holds
up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
-- Chao Chang
The eye of
genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural
language is pathos.
-- Lydia M. Child
1802-1880, American
Abolitionist, Writer, Editor
Genius is
independent of situation.
-- Charles Churchill
1731-1764, British Poet,
Satirist
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True genius
resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain,
hazardous, and conflicting information.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
As it must
not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that
constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively
under laws of its own origination.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet,
Critic, Philosopher
The drafts
which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may
not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to
be paid with compound interest in the end.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
When human
power becomes so great and original that we can account for
it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
-- William Crashaw
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