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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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"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work."
— Albert Einstein
"I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy."
— Charlie Chaplin
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
— Oscar Wilde
"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice."
— Plato
"Study the greats and become greater."
— Michael Jackson
"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."
— Albert Einstein
"Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world."
— Virginia Woolf
"The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
— Oscar Wilde
"With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius."
— George Carlin
"All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them."
— Charlie Chaplin
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