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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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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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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."
"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."
"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
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