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"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"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."
"It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality."
"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence."
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"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."
"I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught."
"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."
"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."
"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."
"The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."
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