Mediocrities Quotes
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.
