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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

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Marilyn vos Savant
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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. Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
  • 2. I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things but you're old enough too.
  • 3. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing kids are still doing that.
  • 2. First of all plain and simple you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.
  • 3. I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

3 Anger

  • 1. Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
  • 2. I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
  • 3. People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 2. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.
  • 2. My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
  • 3. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
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