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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

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We allow no geniuses around our Studio. ↗

— Walt Disney

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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

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I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. ↗

— Richard Donner

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. ↗

— David Duchovny

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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