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Writer, Reporter, Political Commentator

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

Notions

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Theodore Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

Man

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Accident - Man

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

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Kevin Smith

Actor, Director, Author, Comedian

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

Playing

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

Companion - Deal - Good - Making

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Jonathan Swift

Writer, Poet, Cleric

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

With great victory comes great sacrifice.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Failing - Motivation - Persistence - President - Trial

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Stephen King

Writer

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Belief - Infidelity - Maintenance - Priest - Religion - Voting

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Peter Jackson

Screenwriter, Director, Producer

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

Courting - Effectiveness - Loss

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Demanding - Excitement - Feelings - Making - Man - Meaning - Morals - Pleasure

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Emily Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Hiding - Honesty - People

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James Weldon Johnson

Author, Educator, Lawyer, Diplomat, Civil Rights Activist

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

Belief - Devil - Loss - Misfortune - Overcome - Security

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David Hume

Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Essayist

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

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Walt Disney

Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice Actor, Film Producer

If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

Adulthood

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

Perfection - Spelling

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Leo Tolstoy

Writer

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Giving - Man

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James Joyce

Writer, Poet, Teacher

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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John Calvin

Theologian, Pastor, Reformer

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

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Steve Wozniak

Engineer, Inventor, Programmer, Entrepreneur

The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it's so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don't want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here's a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do.

Kindness - Phone - Scary - Wants - Wellness

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

Actions - Path - Pessimism - Recommendation

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer, Novelist

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

Certainty - Generosity - Livelihood - Satisfaction

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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Writer

I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.

Hate - Saints - Scary - Sleeping

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

Perfection

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

Consciousness - Knowledge

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Mario Andretti

Racing Driver

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Fools

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

Death

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Walter Lippmann

Writer, Reporter, Political Commentator

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

Machine - Making - Traditions

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

Every beginning is cheerful.

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

Clothes - Medicine - Sleeping

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