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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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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil

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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. – Charles Munch

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We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. – J. K. Rowling

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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts. – Ferdinand Mount

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