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• Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating.

  Declan Lynch

  Smart, People, Challenges

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• You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.

  Hans Berliner

  Smart, Games, People

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• Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Smart, People

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• There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

  Bill Joy

  Smart, People, Company

  An e-mail to John Hagel III and John Seely Brown, September 28, 2004.

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• If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

  Molly Crabapple

  Smart, Fighting, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

  Judith Martin

  Honesty, Smart, Ducks

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

  Steven Weber

  Smart, Commitment, Space

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• Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Smart, People, Advice

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

  Ben Casnocha

  Smart, People, Dumb

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• I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.

  John Green

  Smart, Thinking, Talking

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• I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

  Noah Baumbach

  Smart, Thinking, People

  "Noah Baumbach Talks 'Kicking And Screaming' On The Eve Of BAMcinemaFest 17th Anniversary Screening" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. June 29, 2012.

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• You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

  Mike Rowe

  Smart, Long, People

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Smart, Fall

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• I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

  Roger Ebert

  Smart, People, Together

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• You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

  Dave Eggers

  Smart, Kids, People

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• One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Smart, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Smart, Book, Animal

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, Cities, People

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• I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

  George W. Bush

  Smart, People, Office

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1262, Government Printing Office

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• Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere.

  Greg Dulli

  Fashion, Smart, People

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• I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation.

  Robert De Niro

  Nice, Smart, Israel

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• The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped

  Bob Sadino

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

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• Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.

  Peter Cundill

  Smart, Stupid, People

  "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.

  Andrew Samwick

  Smart, Believe, Cutting

  "A New Year's Plea". voxbaby.blogspot.ru. January 03, 2007.

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