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		I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Mcewan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hayden Fry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I’m a little old-fashioned in some ways, and that carries over to this arrangement. Call it outdated chivalry, but there are some places I don’t feel women should go. Not because they aren’t intelligent or able. I just feel there is a certain respect with which a lady should be treated. Are you saying there are places you’d take.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brandon Mull
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Pierce
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				G. H. Hardy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Al-Jahiz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Miguel de Cervantes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Keating
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You have to be intelligent. You have to know what other guys are doing because you're in the back end and you see everything, so you have to alert others what to be ready for, and that makes it easier on everyone. It's just like playing offense, but now you're the quarterback of the defense, and you need to be vocal and take on that leadership responsibility. If you do, everything else becomes easier.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Calvin Pryor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Denby
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jose Gonzalez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Steinbrenner