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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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The universal character of the centrifugal forces leaves us impotent as to discern whether what is going on inside the carrousel is because we are rotating with respect to terra firma (remember my eyes are closed), or because – for some unknown reason unrelated to motion – radial gravitational field has temporarily emerged while the carrousel is as in repose as it was before the given impulse. The latter would have certainly been the interpretation adopted by an intelligent being, had s/he been born and grown up inside the carrousel, without any access whatsoever to the exterior world. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

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One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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