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In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

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It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you co...

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This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, ...

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I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, ...

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I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that ...

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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much ...

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Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refus...

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Virginia WoolfThe Death of the Moth and Other Essays

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mou...

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It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...

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My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on....

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Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so your

Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open."And he makes his stu...

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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and prov...

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Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of ...

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Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,And fathers live transmitted in their sons;Each passing y...

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Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

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Jean-Dominique BaubyThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking un...

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Kofi AnnanInterventions: A Life in War and Peace