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3 John Steinbeck Quotes on Intelligence

John Steinbeck quotes on intelligence

  1. George:Lord knows you don't need no brains to buck barley. ('Buck' here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley.)

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  2. Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella. Ch.3, p.41

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  3. He doesn't belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself.

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