"Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?"
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"We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants."
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"Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy."
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"To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not."
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"In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks."
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"We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough.""
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"People just don't know how to handle it if a woman uses smarts and brains rather than tits."
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"Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it."
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"Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio."
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"Don’t try to change someone’s worldview is the strategy smart marketers follow. Don’t try to use facts to prove your case and to insist that people change their biases. You don’t have enough time and you don’t have enough money. Instead, identify a population with a certain worldview, frame your story in terms of that worldview and you win."
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"The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned."
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"No one is as smart as all of us."
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"The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission"
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"Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow."
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"Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices."
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"Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place."
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"I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers."
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"I've done a number of studies with speed dating and Match.com and what's interesting is that you know we still walk into a speed dating event, you know, thinking about what it is we're looking for in a mate and so you ask people, like women will say "I'm looking for somebody who is really kind and sincere and smart and funny.""
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"And guys will say looks matter, but they'll also say things like "Well, she should be smart and kind." And you know those are... so the typical responses and if you give them just a few options, like five or six, then they will rate them on the very characteristics that they said were really important to them."
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"It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it."
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