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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
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"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."
"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun? says Christina."Yes, says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you?"
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
"I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine."
"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so."
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"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
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