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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. – Henry Adams

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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America
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Art
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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individuals intelligence or morality. – Christian Lous Lange

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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. – Leland Stanford

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Intelligence is enormously sexy. – Frank Langella

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. – H. L. Mencken

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