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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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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. – Ambrose Bierce

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that Im going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. – Scott Ritter

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People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic. – Andrew Eldritch

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But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality – a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. – Norman McLaren

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