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"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
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"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
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"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."
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"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
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"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."
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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."
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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"
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"Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."
Time
"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
Advice
"Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it."
Heritage
"Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true."
Life
"Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels."
Greed
"There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty."
Truth
"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."
Creativity
"If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar."
Storytelling
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."
Life
"And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder."
War
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