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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."
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"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"
"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."
"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."
"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."
"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."
"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
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"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."
"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."
"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."
"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."
"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon."
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