"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.“


-F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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