"There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

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“The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.”
“I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.”

Source : "Carrie Mae Weems and a shifting stage". Interview with Tess Mayer, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2016.
“I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five years I stopped and wrote Lucinella. I got stuck; it was too hard to write. Lucinella felt like a lark. I wanted to write about the literary circle because it amused me, and I allowed myself to do what I wanted to do. It's just one of the things I'm allowed to do if I feel like it.”
“I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.”

Source : "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.
“I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.”
“Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.”
“An idea doesn't count if you can't use it”
“The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.”

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