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Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.

— Steven Pinker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.

— Yair Lapid

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

— Rob Reiner

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

— Andrea Dworkin

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

— David Ben-Gurion

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

— Ted Koppel

Jews are underdogs - not in my world, obviously, they're not.

— Chelsea Handler

✗Opposing Perspectives

Jewish people are tough people. They believe in something and believe it really strong, and I find it fascinating that a small country like Israel is as powerful as it is.

— Antonio Sabato, Jr.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

— S. Ansky

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

— Loretta Lynn

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

— Gary Ackerman