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Genius

(noun) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. Example: "I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius... and a very stable genius at that!"

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"I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man."
— Albert Camus
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Study the greats and become greater."
— Michael Jackson
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
— Oscar Wilde
"All geniuses die young."
— Groucho Marx
"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work."
— Albert Einstein
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"
— Albert Einstein
"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."
— Albert Einstein
"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice."
— Plato
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