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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."

"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."

"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."

"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."

"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."

"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."

"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."

"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."

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

"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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"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it."

"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."
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