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Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social institutions no longer recognize or nurture genius, and partly because the modern West is actively hostile to genius.

Bruce Charlton
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Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social institutions no longer recognize or nurture genius, and partly because the modern West is actively hostile to genius.

Bruce Charlton, The Genius Famine: Why we need geniuses, why they're dying out, and why we must rescue them
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Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.-pg 129

Albert Sánchez Piñol, Pandora in the Congo
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out

geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
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I had often said that I would write, the wives of geniuses I have sat with. I have sat with so many. I have sat with wives who were not wives, of geniuses who were real geniuses. I have sat with real wives of geniuses who were not real geniuses. In short, I have sat very often and very long with many wives and wives of many geniuses.' Gertrude Stein wrote this in the voice of her partner, Alice B. Toklas, Stein being apparently the genius, Alice apparently the wife. 'I am nothing,' Alice said after Gertrude dies, 'but a memory of her.'...the flashing blues and red made him look ill, then well, then ill again...

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
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The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

James Morcan, The Ninth Orphan
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The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

Amit Kalantri
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Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand

Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
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By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

Mehmet Murat ildan
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