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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  American writer 1896-1940
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1. intelligence
2. function
3. opposed
4. retain
5. still

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

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