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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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. Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
  • 2. There's a small club of women who are willing to age.
  • 3. The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director and has an amazing ability to express himself and he doesn't do it in musical terms he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
  • 2. Acting is fantastic but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
  • 3. I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

3 Anger

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  • 3. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
  • 2. My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
  • 3. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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