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As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Genius is of no country.

Genius is independent of situation.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.