"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on genius
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"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."

Goldsmith, Sir James on tolerance
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"Travel teaches tolerance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on tolerance
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"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."

Leopardi, Giacomo on tolerance   

"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on tolerance
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"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Mann, Thomas on tolerance
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"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."

Burke, Edmund on tolerance
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"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."

Samuel, Herbert on tolerance
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"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

Jones, Franklin P. on neighbors
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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."

Barenboim, Daniel on art
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"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on influence
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"As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on genius   

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

Pound, Ezra on genius
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."

Baudelaire, Charles on genius
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"People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones."

Kettering, Charles F. on tolerance
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