Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant
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I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. -
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The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
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- Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
- Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
- Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
- Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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