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"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."

"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."

"Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer."

"The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind."

"I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page."

"What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness."
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"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."

"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."

"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment."

"In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside."
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