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"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world."
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"Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind."
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"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
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"I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure."
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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"Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey."
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"Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world."
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"The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense."
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"Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does."
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"Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them."
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
Nothing
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
Knowledge
"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
Art
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Truth
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
Imagination
"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Time
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
Writing
"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
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"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
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