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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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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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"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
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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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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
Ethics

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
Man
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