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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#choice #choices #deliberate #enough #equals

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#amount #children #concentrate #front #much

When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#certain #completely #concentrate #confidence #drop

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#either #guess #i #product #three

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #gotten #jazz #physical #players

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#later #now #someone #wish #you

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#animator #art #art form #form #i

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#arab #arab world #believe #consider #deserve

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#could #feeling #first #first time #given