Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant Quotes

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Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

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Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams Quotes

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Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon Quotes

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.g. Wells Quotes

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Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.

W.edwards Deming Quotes

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Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Frederick Douglass Quotes

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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Ernst Mayr Quotes

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Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

Steve Allen Quotes

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Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.

Heraclitus Quotes

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When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.

Jiminy Cricket Quotes

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To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Baltasar Gracian Quotes

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Meher Baba Quotes

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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.

Democritus Quotes

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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop Quotes

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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

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It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.

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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

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It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.

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