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Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.


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When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer
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How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
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Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.


Laurence J. Peter
I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.
Russell Peters
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.


Francis Bacon
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.


Margaret Fuller
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But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
Brent Scowcroft
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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.


Gavin Bryars
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Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.


Roger Stone
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I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.
Estelle
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I did get to hang out with my dad for a little while. I went with him to summer stock. I watched him be a real king of the world. He'd ship out as a star in summer stock. He sometimes directed the shows. I learned a lot from him - not just about acting, but about everything, how to handle a woman.
David Carradine
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
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