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She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse. ↗


— Dorothy L. Sayers


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Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. ↗


— Gustave Flaubert


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Money comes to those who act intelligently, and God to those who hunger for his grace. ↗


— Shri Radhe Maa


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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit ↗


— Arthur Miller


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Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. ↗


— François de La Rochefoucauld


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Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease! ↗


— W.E.B. Du Bois


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George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge ↗


— John le Carré


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The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118) ↗


— Jean-Yves Leloup


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It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events. ↗


— Wayde Goodall


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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. ↗


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


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