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“But intelligence is not just a matter of acting or behaving intelligently. Behavior is a manifestation of intelligence, but not the central characteristic or primary definition of being intelligent. A moment's reflection proves this: You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding. Ignoring what goes on in your head and focusing instead on behavior has been a large impediment to understanding intelligence and building intelligent machines”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence

“Liberty and equality are enemies: the more freedom men enjoy, the freer they are to reap the results of their natural or environmental superiorities; hence inequality multiplies under governments favoring freedom of enterprise and support of property rights. Equality is an unstable equilibrium, which any difference in heredity, health, intelligence, or character will soon end. Most revolutions find that they can check inequality only by limiting liberty, as in authoritarian lands.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI

“The worst thing in life is not shortage of food; it's human indignity.”
― Robert Kuok Hock Nien, Robert Kuok: A Memoir

“It's not about the events that happen in our lives, but our interpretation of them, which causes us to feel good or bad about something.”
― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe Everything You Think