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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."
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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."
"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."
"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."
"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."
"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
"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."
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