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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."
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"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged."
"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"
"Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?"
"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him."
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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 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."
"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."
"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."
"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
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