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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

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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. At my age no one is married no one has kids no one has a career.
  • 2. I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing – especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
  • 3. Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Well I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now and I don't blame them.
  • 2. In fact it is amazing how much European films – Italian French German and English – have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
  • 3. The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

3 Anger

  • 1. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
  • 2. The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
  • 3. A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like you're not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 2. On this important anniversary we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
  • 3. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
  • 2. I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
  • 3. The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
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