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Letter "I" » intelligent life
«Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.»
Author: Calvin & Hobbes
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«I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician»
«People ask that a lot. They say, 'What did you do while you took time out ?' - as if the rest of my life is taking time out. But the fact is, making movies is time out for me because the rest, the nearly complete whole, is what's real for me. I'm not an actor and haven't been for years. I'm a human being - hopefully a concerned and somewhat intelligent one - who occasionally acts.»
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Kindness,
Life,
Success
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«If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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«Life has been bestowed not for just eating and digesting and roaming and reclining, but for a far greater purpose - the realization of Divinity in us, in all that exists around us and even beyond all things that strike our senses. To waste such a life in vain pursuits and in mere senses of pleasures is not the sign of an intelligent person.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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«When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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