Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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