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• The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

  Daniel Goleman

  Robust, Enjoyable

  "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

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• Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

  Alison Gopnik

  Dog, Animal, Thinking

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• A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Inspirational, Thank You, Children

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• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  Gary Hamel

  Design, Everyday, Evidence

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• There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Winning, Intellectual

  Disturbing the Peace ch. 5 (1986) (translation by Paul Wilson)

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• If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Stupid, Tunnels, Light

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  Paris Hilton

  Stupid, Blonde, Want

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• I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Crazy, Believe, Garden

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• My mum is incredibly intelligent.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Mum

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Strong Women, Female, Obsessed

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• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

  Victor Hugo

  Rivers, Shore, Meditating

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• Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

  Elton John

  Successful, Men, Helping

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• The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Beautiful, War, Hands

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Fantastic, Stills

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• We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

  Li Ka-shing

  Inspirational, Business, Knowledge

  "Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony". Book by Bradley J. Preber (p. 81), May 9, 2014.

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• Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

  Jessica Lange

  Emotional, Perfect, Language

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• An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

  Jaron Lanier

  Musician, Culture, Use

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Truth, Believe, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Cogs, Tinkering

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.21, Island Press

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• There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Boring, Endless

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• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  Laura Linney

  Casting, Groups, Icy

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• A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

  Elle Macpherson

  Passion, Successful, Names

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• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

  Bill Maher

  Death, God, Suicide

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• There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Suffering, Teach

  "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

  Malcolm X

  Daddy, Doe, Down And

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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