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"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun? says Christina."Yes, says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you?"
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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."

"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."

"It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality."
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"I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias," I say, "I love you."


"Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle."


"At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."


"...we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better."


"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
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