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"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."

"Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?"

"Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq."

"It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience."

"Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life."

"For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question."

"You have to be smart to get what you want."

"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."

"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."

"To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn't it? The one who proceeds with caution will win."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."


"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."


"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."


"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."


"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
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