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Quote by Will Cuppy
If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same

If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. – Will Cuppy

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I dont like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. – Will Cuppy

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Poetry
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Will Cuppy
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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. – Will Cuppy

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cool
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Will Cuppy
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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. Theres always something. – Will Cuppy

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Home
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Will Cuppy
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Intelligence
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But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. – Daniel Goleman

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Intelligence

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Intelligence

Im not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Intelligence

I think theres a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you dont have to think about it. – Clyde Tombaugh

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Intelligence

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In a certain sense all men are historians. – Thomas Carlyle, Essays: On History

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I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. – Eliot Spitzer

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Ive had people ask me in interviews what its like to have money, but thats not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW. – Beth Ditto

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When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. Theres a momentum for change thats very compelling. – Anne M. Mulcahy

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