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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck

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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. – John Steinbeck

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they dont understand what the real problems are. – Aldrich Ames

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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence. – Bob Graham

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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. – Paul Harris

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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. – Arabian Proverb

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They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. – James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

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It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis. – Paul von Hindenburg

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It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. – Dennis Prager

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