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All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves.
Terry Teachout
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Sid Caesar
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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Matthew Sweet
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My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
Martin Kippenberger
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker
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I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo Szilard
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That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.


Gucci Mane
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.


Madame de Stael
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I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.


Nick Harkaway
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


Thomas Carlyle
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Tom Wolfe
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.


Akira Kurosawa
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Roland Barthes
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Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.
Ron Wyden
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There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.
Shah Rukh Khan
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.


Denis Diderot
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung
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