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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.

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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

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Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

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The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

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The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

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To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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