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  1. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
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  2. Robert Green Ingersoll _ The Christian Religion An

    Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.
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  3. With the decline of the United States as the world's leader, I find it important to look around our globe for intelligent people who have the depth of understanding that could perhaps chart a way to the future. One such person is Bernard-Henri Lévy a French philosopher who was born in Béni Saf, French Algeria on November 5, 1948. . The Boston Globe has said that he is "perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today." Although his published work and political activism has fueled controversies, he invokes thought provoking insight into today's controversial world and national views. As a young man and Zionist he was a war correspondent for "Combat" newspaper for the French Underground. Following the war Bernard attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and in 1968; he graduated with a degree in philosophy from the famous École Normale Supérieure. This was followed by him traveling to India where he joined the International Brigade to aid Bangladeshi freedom fighters
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  4. George Bernard Shaw _ The Irrational Knot

    {Chess} is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. "
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  5. Maurice Sendak _ The Art of Maurice Sendak:

    It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
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  6. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    She did not need a library; she was a library.
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  7. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.
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  8. Bart D. Ehrman _ Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing

    {P}eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate-whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
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  9. Gustave Flaubert _ Sentimental Education

    ... inteligența lui nu era destul de mare pentru a ajunge pînă la Artă, nici destul de burgheză pentru a viza numai profitul, în așa chip încît, fără să mulțumească pe nimeni, se ruina./ ...son intelligence n'était pas assez haute pour atteindre jusqu'à l'Art, ni assez bourgeoise non plus pour viser exclusivement au profit, si bien que, sans contenter personne, il se ruinait. {©BeQ}
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  10. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pecuchet

    Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
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  11. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    Ashe, Kiever, Peters; that was a progression in quality, in authority, which to Leamas was axiomatic of the hierarchy of an intelligence network. It was also, he suspected, a progression in ideology. Ashe, the mercenary, Kiever the fellow traveler, and now Peters, for whom the end and the means were identical.
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  12. Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind

    I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
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