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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."

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

"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."

"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."

"The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth."

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
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