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"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"
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"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."
"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun? says Christina."Yes, says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you?"
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
"I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine."
"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so."
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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"
"The best things in life are beyond money, their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value."
"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."
"Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time."
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."
"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good-and is no sillier than any other theology."
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