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"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

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

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

"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"

"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."

"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
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"An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it."

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

"Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others."

"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."

"You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."
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