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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

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Laurence J. Peter
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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. I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
  • 2. Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes – they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring regardless of your age.
  • 3. The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age and an age is heroic because of what it is not because of what it does.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage to be in the studio with amazing people but I find it all a bit bizarre.
  • 2. One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
  • 3. When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before and I loved it. It was my first big thing and looking out into the crowd… was just amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 2. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
  • 3. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
  • 2. At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
  • 3. I think that narrative fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater art history architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
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