"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."

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Source : Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

Marya Mannes

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“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”

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