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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.