"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American Writer

Intelligence, Imagination, Love, Danger

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"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

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"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Intelligence is a moral category."

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"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"There are no original ideas. There are only original people."

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"Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing."

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"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."

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"Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people."

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"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."

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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

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"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."

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"Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion."

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"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."

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"Desire creates its own object."

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