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"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy."
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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."

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

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

"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."

"The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind."

"I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page."

"What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness."
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"His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen."

"I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories."

"Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers."

"The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie."

"When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier."

"I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it."

"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
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