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Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Selfishness
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Grief
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Intelligence
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If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. – Holly Near

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Intelligence

I dont want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. – Warren Christopher

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That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence. – Stephen Hadley

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Intelligence

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership. – Peter Pace

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The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow

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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – Eric Hoffer

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He didnt come out of my belly, but my God, Ive made his bones, because Ive attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. Im so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. – John Lennon

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