"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.“


-Marilyn vos Savant

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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

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