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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. ↗

— Jane Austen

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ↗

— Jane Wagner

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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature. ↗

— Philip Roth

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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

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Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

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