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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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Intelligence,

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
  • 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. As a kid I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
  • 2. You know when I was a kid waiting on the bus I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course all of it has kind of come to fruition.
  • 3. I'm crazy about my father he's an amazing man a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote that white people hardly ever reach them.

3 Anger

  • 1. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
  • 2. I also had to work through the violation of my date rape my unhealthy relationships with men my anger toward the people involved in the scandal and those who exploited me afterwards.
  • 3. It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up turn on the TV and watch the parade so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear though to stay warm!
  • 2. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 3. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 2. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting something connected to the fine arts.
  • 3. The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
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