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“Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.”

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Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.”

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Author:Will Arnett

“Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.”

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Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.”

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Author:Edward Miner Gallaudet

“Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.”

Wealth Genius Gold Monstrous Barbarism

Book:Heroides ; and, Amores

Source: Heroides ; and, Amores

“As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.”

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Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.”

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Author:Chaim Weizmann

“What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.”

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Author:Oliver DeMille

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”

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Author:Ernest Legouve

“gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius”

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Author:Eoin Colfer

“It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.”

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Book:The Romance of the Commonplace

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

“A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.”

Country Education Mines Fine Genius Gold Poor Richard

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.”

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Book:Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities