Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Quotes to Explore
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Racism is a physical experience.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.
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In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.
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Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
