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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
American
Inventor
Born:
Feb 11
,
1847
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Aristotle
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson
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