The centuries rarely produce a genius. It is our bad luck that the great genius of our era was granted to the Turkish nation. We could not beat Mustafa Kemal.
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David Lloyd George is portrayed as saying this in the Turkish TV series, Kurtulus (1994), but no prior citation of such a statement has yet been found.
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Variant translation: The genius of our century centuries rarely produce a genius. Look at this bad luck of ours, that the great genius of our era was granted to the Turkish nation.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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There are two Mustafa Kemals: One is me, the flesh-and-blood, mortal Mustafa Kemal The second Mustafa Kemal, I can not express it with the word me, it is not me, it is we. That is an intellectual and challenging society, struggling in every corner of the homeland for new ideas, new life and the great ideal. I represent their dream. My attempts are to satisfy the things they long. That Mustafa Kemal is you, all of you. That is the non provisonal Mustafa Kemal that must live and succeed.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
There are two Mustafa Kemals: One is me, the flesh-and-blood, mortal Mustafa Kemal The second Mustafa Kemal, I can not express it with the word me, it is not me, it is we. That is an intellectual and challenging society, struggling in every corner of the homeland for new ideas, new life and the great ideal. I represent their dream. My attempts are to satisfy the things they long. That Mustafa Kemal is you, all of you. That is the non provisonal Mustafa Kemal that must live and succeed.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. ... The theory of special genius, according to which for instance, it is supposed that a musical genius should be a fool at other subjects, confuses genius with talent. ... There are many kinds of talent, but only one kind of genius, and that is able to choose any kind of talent and master it.
Otto Weininger
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Muste, A. J.
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