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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Intelligence

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
  • 2. Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day you're dealing with the mind of a child so it opens up that childishness in you again.
  • 3. In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness women taking off their bras and dancing around naked and a political hopefulness and involvement.
  • 2. At 13 when I was a runaway I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention those girls could paint a face and I learned how because of them.
  • 3. I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

3 Anger

  • 1. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
  • 2. Allowing children to show their guilt show their grief show their anger takes the sting out of the situation.
  • 3. Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
  • 3. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
  • 2. I am but an architectural composer.
  • 3. I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
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