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Virtues.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: Common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. -John C. Bogle.

Intelligence.

             Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity. -Unknown Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.   -Aldous Huxley Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. -Albert Einstein There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. -Henry Adams I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. -Lisa Alther The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. -R...