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Mendelssohn was wrong to call Berlioz "a genius without talent".
It allows him to celebrate his genius without sounding horribly arrogant.
Throughout much of history, prodigies were thought to be possessed; Aristotle believed that there could be no genius without madness.
A lot of people have passion without the genius, and a lot of people have genius without the passion.
George Osborne is not chancellor because he is a financial genius without equal in the United Kingdom.
He loved his sayings, Carnesecca did, and he would tell his team that "a genius without discipline is like an octopus on skates".
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These, he said, were the experimental geniuses without whom nothing would have been possible.
But we can tell, right off, where this story must go: you can't have two medical geniuses without game eventually recognizing game.
Rand's particular intellectual contribution, the thing that makes her so popular and so American, is the way she managed to mass market elitism — to convince so many people, especially young people, that they could be geniuses without being in any concrete way distinguished.
The court found in favor of Dumas, essentially because, as Arthur Fitzwilliam Davidson writes in his biography of Dumas, he was the genius: "Dumas without Maquet would have been Dumas: what would Maquet have been without Dumas?" Happily, Maquet did go on to publish several of his own novels.
Phrases like "humble genius", "fantasy without the flashiness", and "the simple star" have become an admiring media's stock in trade.
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