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I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being. ↗

— John Fowles

#intelligence #jane-austen #mr-knightley #snobbery #intelligence

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#thought-provoking #intelligence

The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully. 'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#money #intelligence

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

#efficiency #inevitable #national #outgrowth #result

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#lack #make #manage #people #personality

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. ↗

— Pindar

#affection #even #every #gift #given

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. ↗

— Pindar

#self-interest #wisdom #yield

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. ↗

— Pindar

#days #still #wisest #witnesses

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. ↗

— Pink

#bend #break #elements #favorite #flexible

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#philosophy #pessimism