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It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place. (Quote by - Hazel Henderson)

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.)

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? (Quote by - Bette Greene)

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. (Quote by - E. F. Schumacker)

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. (Quote by - Charles Bukowski)

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland)

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? (Quote by - Charles de Lint)

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)

What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Mike is a genius. I can really see him as Keith. He's amazing when you meet him, so clever. (Quote by - Roger Daltrey)

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. (Quote by - Richard Buckminster Fuller)

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Oscar Lavant)

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. (Quote by - Italo Calvino)

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. (Quote by - Margaret Lee Runbeck)

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