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F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

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Asa Don Brown

"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"

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"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."

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"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."

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"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."

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"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence."

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Asa Don Brown

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

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"Intelligence is a moral category."

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"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."

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"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
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"I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts."
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"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
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"In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party."
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"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
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"Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery."
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"We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day."
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"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
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