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"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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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."
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"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
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"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."
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"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."
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"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
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"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
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"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
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"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."
Life

"A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines."
Purpose

"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work

"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
Man

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
Power

"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
Imagination

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
Nothing

"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire

"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."
Being

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
War
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