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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. – Marya Mannes

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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes

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Feminism
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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. – Marya Mannes

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Solitude
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Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and thats why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center. – Jim Ramstad

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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. – Arthur C. Clarke

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The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. – David Letterman

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Im a big advocate of financial intelligence. – Daymond John

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Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. – Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means… airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. – Cecil Beaton

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau

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