#gen

Since I enjoy intelligent conversation, I generally want an IQ that's larger than the bra size.” “So, if I’m a drooling idiot, you’ll leave me alone? ↗

— Ann Bruce

#intelligence

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small. ↗

— James Gould Cozzens

#intelligence

Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression. ↗

— Georg Groddeck

#intelligence

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#manhood #maturity #courage

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. ↗

— George Plimpton

#because #being #bit #generation #i

The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#generous #life #together #beauty

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa. ↗

— Stephen Potter

#bouquet #general #general rule #good #rule

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#author #being #book #classic #continuing

Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#bankrupt #benefits #disappear #facto #future