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"People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel."
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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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"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
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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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"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."
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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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"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
Marriage

"Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."
Life

"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."
Time

"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
Conversation

"The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions."
Work

"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
Happiness

"People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel."
Intelligence

"To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it."
Humor

"Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences."
Man

"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."
Man
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