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“The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.”
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“Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.”
Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.145, Penguin
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“It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.”
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“Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.”
Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.21, Xist Publishing
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“Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.”
Source : "Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph". Book by Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2009.
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“Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.”
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“Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.”
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“Suckers have no business with money anyway.”
