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"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
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"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."
"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
"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."
"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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