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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

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Marilyn vos Savant
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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'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
  • 2. Admiration of the proletariat like that of dams power stations and aeroplanes is part of the ideology of the machine age.
  • 3. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

2 Amazing

  • 1. A few years back when my style was 'punk grandma ' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
  • 2. You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project and now that has become me which is an amazing blessing.
  • 3. It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

3 Anger

  • 1. The opposite of anger is not calmness its empathy.
  • 2. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.
  • 3. Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 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. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
  • 2. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
  • 3. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
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