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"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."
"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
"Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder."
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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