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		The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It's that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bret Stephens
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Brunton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I believe there's other forms of intelligence in the universe. I've seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we're the most intelligent things in the universe... well, that's just depressing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rekha Sharma
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alicia Keys
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A lot of new artists, especially girl artists, feel pressure to be so 'media perfect' and 'trained.' I'm intelligent, but I don't like hearing regurgitated answers in interviews that sound so rehearsed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maren Morris
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donna Dixon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eva Ibbotson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Boyle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Camille Flammarion
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jean-Jacques Rousseau
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sean Covey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Isbell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Barker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Goleman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sela Ward
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marty Feldman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Colin Tudge
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Gilder