"Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment."
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"A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled."
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"As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious."
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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
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"That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence."
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"My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness."
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"Everything intelligent is so boring."
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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
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"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
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"It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis."
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"I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest."
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"If you would take, you must first give."
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"The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse."
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"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
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"It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee."
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"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
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"The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it."
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"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."
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"I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged."
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"Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person."
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