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"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."

"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
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"To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance."

"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."

"It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement."

"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."

"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."

"One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family."

"When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it."

"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
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