"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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“I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.”
“Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.”
“The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.”
“I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us.”
“You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.”

Source : Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.291, Del Rey
“Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert VÃ©drine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq.”
“My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, thereâ€™s hardly any difference.”

Source : "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".
“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.”

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