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"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
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"Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind."

"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."

"Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does."

"Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them."

"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."

"The dull pray, the geniuses are light mockers."

"One of my friends compared me to Bruce Banner, due to my work with radiation and human health. So I looked up Bruce Banner and this is what I found: Banner, a physicist, is sarcastic and seemingly very self-assured when he first appears in Incredible Hulk #1, but is also emotionally withdrawn in most fashions...Banner is considered one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, possessing "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test." He holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, physiology, and nuclear physics."

"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."

"It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience."

"Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters."
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"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."

"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."

"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."

"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."
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