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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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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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Pleasure
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Life
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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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Music
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Intelligence
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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Intelligence

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. – Charles Foster Bass

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Intelligence

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there. – George J. Mitchell

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Intelligence

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. – Theodore White

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Intelligence

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There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. – Henry Ford

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Quality

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and Id like to see them again. And Id love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. – Dave Eggers

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Home

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Love