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• I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stupid, Thinking, Play

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.

  Jim Butcher

  Animal, Numbers, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2105, Penguin

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• The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Writing, Average

  "Player Piano". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1952.

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• God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse)

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Kings, Order, Law

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• [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stupid, Science, Earth

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• Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

  C. S. Lewis

  Laughing, Grace, Giants

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• Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.

  John Green

  Stupid, Real, Believe

  "John Green asks himself "Why is being a nerd bad?" in July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults". www.youtube.com. July 27, 2007.

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• There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Boys, Years, Ideas

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• The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ignorance, Men, Animal

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.

  Yann Martel

  Country, People, Canada

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.6, Vintage Canada

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• Intelligent men are dangerous.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Dangerous, Intelligent Man

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.118, Penguin

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• Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Nick Hornby (2003). “31 songs”, Viking Books

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• I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.

  Irvine Welsh

  Sex, War, Believe

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.483, Random House

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• It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

  Robin McKinley

  Animal, Long Ago, Mastery

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• He who thinks little errs much.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• Everything intelligent is so boring.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Intelligence, Boring, So Boring

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• Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Changing Your Life, Young

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.15, Vintage

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• Cats are cats . . . the world over! These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something. -James Mackintosh Qwilleran

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Hate, Cat, Greed

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• We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

  Alain de Botton

  Insanity, Disease, Awareness

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Wise, Destiny

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• The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Lying, Men

  Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (1999). “An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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• American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

  Richard Dawkins

  Opportunity, Political, Honest

  "Militant atheism". TED2002, www.ted.com. 2002.

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• People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Men, People

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• But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moving, Eye, Able

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