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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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"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
Sex
"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
Talent
"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."
Time
"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable."
Family
"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
Virtue
"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."
Sex
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
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"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."
Diplomacy
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
Biography
"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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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."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"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."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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