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“Clever is as clever does.”

― P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins Opens the Door

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“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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“I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“They love their hair because they aren't smart enough to love something more interesting.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

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“I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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“An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.”

― Linus Torvalds,

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