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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. – Bryant H. McGill

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The Germans certainly – the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing. – David Kay

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil

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In these troubled, uncertain times, we dont need more command and control we need better means to engage everyones intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault

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It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. – Paul Nurse

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Theres this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if theres no talent you wont get the part. – Lily Collins

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