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"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use."
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."

"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."

"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."

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

"Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces."

"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

"I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."

"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."

"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

"Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are."

"Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free."

"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in."

"You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love."

"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact."

"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."

"Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating."

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
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