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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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History
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. – Rebecca West

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Trust
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West

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Art
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The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. – Adam Schiff

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I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, youre stuck. – Jim Parsons

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. – George Bancroft

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Intelligence

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. – Freeman Dyson

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We especially need imagination in science. – Maria Mitchell

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I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin

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