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- Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works.
- Stuart Brown M.D. and Christopher Vaughan, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, 2009
- Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
- Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
- When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- The difference between insanity and genius is success.
- Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies
- Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
- William Hogarth
- One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!"
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Hilarious, 2011
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