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

"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

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

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

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

"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"

"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
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