There's mid-Nineties teen Glamma Kid, whose dancehall pop hit 'Fashion Magazine' is the missing link between the obvious Jamaicanisms of Eighties MCs such as Tippa Irie and Papa Levi - whose awesome 'My God My King' contains the genius line 'the sweetest singer is Sugar Minott/ The maddest comedian is Kenny Everett' - and the grime powerhouse that spat out So Solid Crew and Roll Deep.
I wonder how things might have turned out differently if Robin Williams had learned to trust that the same "creative well" that fed his comic genius contained a deeper wisdom to feed his soul.
And the genius is contained in the last phrase: if everyone's super, no one will be.
More definite figures lacking, perhaps the closest estimate of her financial genius is contained in a statement accredited to the banking house of Rothschild, a European establishment discerning enough to have made a fortune even out of the Battle of Waterloo: "Mademoiselle Chanel," they are reported as solemnly saying, "knows how to make a safe twenty per cent".
Friedrich Engels found in Saint-Simon "the breadth of view of a genius," containing in embryo most of the ideas of the later socialists.
If you're prepared to skip where necessary, this double CD of previously unreleased 1970 and 1972 live shows from LA's Inglewood contains genuine Jackson genius among the schmaltz.
One couldn't describe EM Forster as having been influenced by Conrad, exactly, but he probably had it right when he said of him that "the secret casket of his genius contains a vapour rather than a jewel".
Both president and protesters would benefit from reading Douglass's conclusion: "While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American institutions, my spirit is cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.. . .
To make it on to such hallowed lists, the heritage subject must meet a range or criteria in the assessment of Outstanding Universal Value, which include "representing a masterpiece of human creative genius", "containing superlative natural phenomena", "exhibiting an important interchange of human values", and "bearing a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition".
