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"Oaths are the fossils of piety."
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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."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"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."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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"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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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness
"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
Happiness
"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine."
Faith
"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."
Friendship
"America is a young country with an old mentality."
Politics
"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
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"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
Death
"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
Money
"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
Wealth
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