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In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

- Alfred N. Whitehead

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

- John Naisbitt

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

- Christopher Morley

To the good listener half a word is enough.

- Spanish proverb

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

- Thomas a Kempis

Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

- J. Martin Klotsche

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

- Lewis Mumford

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

- Simone Weil

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

- Marya Mannes

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George S. Patton

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

- Woodrow Wilson

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

- Henry Kissinger

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

- Wilson Mizner

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

- Gerald Ford