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Intelligence

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 12, 2018November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories knowledgeTags George Santayana

Uniformity is not ideal

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 28, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories equalityTags George Santayana

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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