Quote by Abigail Adams
Ive always felt that a persons intelligence is directly reflected

Ive always felt that a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. – Abigail Adams

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams

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Experience
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams

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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. – Abigail Adams

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Marriage
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. – Clifford D. Simak

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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. – Annie Jump Cannon

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Intelligence

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didnt support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. – Aldrich Ames

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