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— Henry Thomas Buckle"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas."
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Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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