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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
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"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
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"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
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"He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction."
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"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
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"So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes."
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"Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence."
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"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."
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"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
Marriage

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
Death

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
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"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
Dream

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
Art

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
Knowledge

"To become an artist you have to be curious."
Art

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
Sports

"If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof."
Art

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
Education
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