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Quote by John Steinbeck
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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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. – John Steinbeck

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – John Steinbeck

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. – Jose Bergamin

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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. – J. K. Rowling

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One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasnt attacked us, its because he cant or because weve defeated him. – Michael Scheuer

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Ive always wanted to be a spy, and frankly Im a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. – Elizabeth Hurley

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