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Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:25:52 +0000

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
—Vladimir Nabokov

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:12:57 +0000

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie.
—Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:11:05 +0000

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
—Jonathan Swift

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:10:50 +0000

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
—Christopher Quill

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:30:17 +0000

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.
—James Russell Lowell

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:30:05 +0000

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede — not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can’t count above fourteen.
—G. C. Lichtenberg

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:29:45 +0000

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
—Joseph Joubert

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:29:33 +0000

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent, the power to do the right thing the first time.
—Elbert Hubbard

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:29:10 +0000

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
—Goethe

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:28:55 +0000

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
—Benjamin Franklin