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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. Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere turning its back on the political realm.
  • 2. At my age I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
  • 3. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.
  • 3. But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it the more amazed I am by being here at all.

3 Anger

  • 1. Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance respect for differences conflict resolution anger management and other attributes of peace.
  • 2. When anger rises think of the consequences.
  • 3. My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
  • 2. Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion some polemic I think is good. It shows that people are interested people are involved.
  • 3. In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
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