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“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

People Ifs Doe Said Force Interesting Century Argument Claims Intelligent Surprise Terrorism Terrorist Surprising 21st Century Very Interesting Surprise Me Appease Spawn

Author:Meles Zenawi

“Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'”

Said Reality Seems Might Intelligent Patient Ridiculous Agents Investors Clients Irrational One Love Martians Volatility Keynes

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.”

Men Said Fighting Lost Intelligent Ass Kicks Self Defense Intelligent Man

Book:Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence

Source: Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence

“An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.”

“If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.”

“We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!”

People Said Tears Intelligent Goodbye Steeples

Author:Leo Robin