Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mean Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Appreciate Quotes

Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

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Tags : Al Kooper Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Research Quotes

It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

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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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For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Organization Quotes

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , People Quotes

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Men Quotes

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Giving Quotes

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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If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

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The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.

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Tags : Abu Nu`aym Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Evil Quotes

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Writing Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

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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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Imagination Quotes

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Men Quotes

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

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