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"The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."
"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
"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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"The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word."
"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."
"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."
"But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group."
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