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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."

"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."

"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces."

"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

"I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."

"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."

"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."


"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."
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