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

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Alfred North Whitehead
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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 Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
  • 2. While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
  • 3. I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
  • 2. It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is – my daughter Georgia is just wonderful.
  • 3. There's the Hollywood sign there's Griffith Observatory there's the great amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

3 Anger

  • 1. I am ready to accept all accusations allegations anger – but I have to succeed.
  • 2. Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
  • 3. I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
  • 3. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
  • 2. The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
  • 3. I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
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