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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
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"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
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"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
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"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."
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"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
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"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
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"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."
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