“High I. Q., good compatibility index, superior education—everything that makes a person pleasant and easy and interesting to have around.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, book The Past Through Tomorrow

The Long Watch (p. 255)
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

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“It's all true that education will make you intelligent. But it can't automatically make you a good person too.”

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“In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women … I am a superior person to that. I have finer points. So, superior in mentality, yes. As a fighter in accordance to the trade, yes”

Chris Eubank (1966) British former professional boxer

On Nigel Benn, his bitter rival. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1010013,00.html#article_continue

“It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“Q: What would you say to Bin Laden and George Bush?
A: I have to look at them as human beings. What one person had done for the world, is terrible, but for my perspective … if it was morning I would say "good morning" and if it was afternoon I would say, "good afternoon"
Q:That's all?
A: That's all. It is not my place to judge them.
Q: Thank you very much, Maharaji.”

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"In Conversation", TV interview by Rajiv Mehrotra, Doordarshan Television News, India, 3 March 2006.
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“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868) English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain

Speech to the House of Commons (January 29, 1828).

“I hopehaven't given up on the S. Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S. Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

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“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.”

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist

Sydney J. Harris, as quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by Robert Andrews; also quoted as: "...a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
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“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

Lovel the Widower (1860), Ch. 6.

“High I. Q., good compatibility index, superior education—everything that makes a person pleasant and easy and interesting to have around.”

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