"It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop."

-- John le Carre

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“It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.”

Source : Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.100, Random House
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