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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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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."
"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."
"Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer."
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them."
"Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money."
"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."
"The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'."
"Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere."
"It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into."
"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."
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