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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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Intelligence,

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning not as something to celebrate.
  • 2. Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
  • 3. When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

2 Amazing

  • 1. You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project and now that has become me which is an amazing blessing.
  • 2. The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens like I see an amazing animal like a fox or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
  • 3. I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. In the final analysis the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
  • 2. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
  • 3. Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 2. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 3. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I'd like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.
  • 2. The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
  • 3. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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