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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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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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"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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"If you think you're smart,think twice to be smarter."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
Work
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Identity
". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
Behavior
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
Experience
"Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it."
Art
"Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story."
Success
"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."
Politics
"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
Experience
"Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores."
Life
"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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