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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. – Stephen Leacock

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Men
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. – Stephen Leacock

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Hockey
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Its called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. – Stephen Leacock

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Politics
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. – Giorgio Vasari

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Intelligence

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. – Leonard Boswell

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Intelligence

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. – Samuel Beckett

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Intelligence

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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Intelligence

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Im still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive. – Brit Marling

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Romantic

I dont break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property – thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life. – Michel de Montaigne

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Suicide

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Imagination

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and Id say, Im still dead, Mom! I was Method, even then. – Creed Bratton

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