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The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ↗

— Anthony Hope

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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ↗

— Charles Sumner

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Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. ↗

— David Hume

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