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Quote by Alexander Pope
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumbe

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. – Alexander Pope

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

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For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best. – Alexander Pope

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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. – Alexander Pope

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They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons. – Douglas Feith

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Im fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man? – Charles Cumming

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. – Michel de Montaigne

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Intelligence

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and its important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what were doing. – Leon Panetta

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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. – Peggy Noonan

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One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. – Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. – Andrew Carnegie

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April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory out of desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in a forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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