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"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
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"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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