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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
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John Green, Vlogbrothers, My Name Is John Green. And I am a Nerd., 10-30-07

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
Genius is of no country.
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Charles Churchill
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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Lydia M. Child
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
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Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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