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Henry Adams
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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Normandy Alden
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"One of the surest signs that intelligent life exists in outer space is that none of it has tried to contact us yet."
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Rene Descartes
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"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
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James Dewar
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"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
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Albert Einstein
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
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Sam Ewing
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"The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound."
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Edna Ferber
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"A closed mind is a dying mind."
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Heinrich Heine
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"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
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The Hermit
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"Common Sense isn't what it used to be."
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Sherlock Holmes
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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Laurence J. Peter
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"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
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Dan Quayle
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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
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Edgard Varese
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"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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Stephen Vizinczey
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"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."
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C. W. Ceran
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"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."
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Edger Wallace
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"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."
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Oscar Wilde
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
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