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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independenc

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce

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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. – Ambrose Bierce

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Politics
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. – Christopher Columbus

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. – Wayne Dyer

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Intelligence

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. – Sri Aurobindo

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The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer

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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. – David Bailey

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Theres no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But theres no excuse for boredom, ever. – Viggo Mortensen

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