I would like to take you seriously, but to do so w... -George Bernard Shaw

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race....
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it....
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children....
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad....
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office....
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous....
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all....
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own....
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world....
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power....

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Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level ...
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human being...
I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human abi...
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which...
I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have go...
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interestin...
My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman....
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental a...
I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor....
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not e...