Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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