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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you cant think what to do with the long winter evenings. – Quentin Crisp

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Money
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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Neighbors
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. – Quentin Crisp

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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Intelligence

Heres the teaching point, if youre teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesnt absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. – George Tenet

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Intelligence

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. – John Podhoretz

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Intelligence

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

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work. – Thomas A. Edison

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work

Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. – Bianca Jagger

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Chilton Pearce

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