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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. - George S

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. – George Santayana

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana

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Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly. – Diogenes

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. – Rafik Hariri

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. – Aldous Huxley

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