#intel

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

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An intelligent woman with allies can accomplish anything ↗

— Margaret Plant

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Place Saint-Germain-des-Près. Devant la sortie de l'église, le jeune homme qui crie son journal. Demandez l'Antijuif! Vient de paraître! Donc c'est un nouveau numéro. Non, défense de l'acheter. Il s'approche, son mouchoir contre son nez, demande l'Antijuif, paye le jeune homme qui lui sourit. Otez le mouchoir, lui parler, le convaincre? Frère, ne comprends tu pas que tu me tortures? Tu es intelligent, ton visage est beau, aimons nous. Demandez l'Antijuif! Il court, traverse, s'engouffre dans une petite rue, brandit la feuille de haine. Demandez l'Antijuif! crie t il dans la rue déserte. Mort aux juifs! crie t il dans une voix folle. Mort à moi! crie t il, le visage illuminé de larmes. ↗

— Albert Cohen

#belle-du-seigneur #intelligence

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

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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

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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

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

— Georg Groddeck

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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. ↗

— Scott Ritter

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