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Jul 26, 2007, 05:19 pm
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| Guest Posts: n/a | Who is the smartest person you personally know? Title says it all. Don't use real names if you don't want to, but who is the person in your life who is the smartest person you know? The person who seems to know more than anyone else in your circle, and who is the wisest? Regards S. |
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Jul 26, 2007, 05:56 pm
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| Volcanic Erupter Posts: 8,936 | Quote:
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Jul 26, 2007, 06:00 pm
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| Redskins Rule  Location: South-Western Virginia Posts: 2,559 | Quote:
Still me! All I see when I look down, something jumpin' on the ground, Scratchin' dirt, cluckin' in the barnyard - Tell me, could that be you? John Kay | |
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Jul 26, 2007, 06:07 pm
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 Slightly Dangerous  Location: Greencastle, PA Posts: 1,333 | Quote:
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Jul 26, 2007, 09:26 pm
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| Leibniz  Posts: 286 | One of my Poli sci professors. More of a philosopher really. He was smart enough to admit his ignorance. Very Socratic and very sophisticated. "...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |
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Jul 26, 2007, 09:28 pm
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| Principled Observer  Location: Toledo, Ohio Posts: 13,877 | A friend who was a Longshoremen, a Philosophy Major and a truly all around good guy. Well schooled, ex-serviceman, could fit in amongst scholars or blue-collars. Petition of Redress of Grievances: http://www.givemeliberty.org/default.htm Canadian Lawsuit Against Their National Banks: http://www.freewebs.com/classaction/ Osborn F. Enready |
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Jul 26, 2007, 10:40 pm
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| Guest Posts: n/a | The smartest person I know is a colleague with whom I've worked since the early 1970s. He's a former professor of biology and is now a science adviser to a non-profit organization. He is able to provide insights into most any subject, and is able to discuss anything without even a whisper of animus. He takes as much delight in discovering he is wrong as discovering he is right about a matter--as both are a means to ever elusive wisdom. Regards S. |
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Jul 27, 2007, 07:06 am
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  Moderator  Location: Wales Posts: 2,317 | There are several people I know. One guy did a two year programming course in half the time because he is so good at it and got a first class degree at university. Another achieved straight A's at university and got a first class degree from Oxford. My girl friend got the highest score in her entire department at university. Another only got a 2.2 but he is really knowledgeable in all subjects and also has that great quality of 'common sense' in abundance. Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, […] no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society. Robert Owen |
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Jul 27, 2007, 10:22 am
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| Redskins Rule Location: South-Western Virginia Posts: 2,559 | Quote:
Still, despite the glaring brightness of your intellect, it is quite obvious to me that you are but Sirius, while I am Antares. All I see when I look down, something jumpin' on the ground, Scratchin' dirt, cluckin' in the barnyard - Tell me, could that be you? John Kay | |
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Jul 27, 2007, 11:01 am
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| The dingos!  Posts: 4,548 | In my decade and a half of experience, the most intelligent person I can call to mind is a high-school English teacher. He managed to condescend to and scold a classroom full of ninth graders, almost daily, while maintaining himself as the favorite among his students. |
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Jul 27, 2007, 11:23 am
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| blasphemer  Location: Michigan Posts: 8,417 | It may be Laurie Anderson, my academic adviser when I was in college. He always had plenty to say about his experiences as a Peace Corp volunteer in the midst of the Biafran War, he's very well read, etc. He may have been politically biased in class at times, but he was always open to discussion. "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~Voltaire |
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Jul 27, 2007, 12:47 pm
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| dog lover  Location: over the rainbow Posts: 1,367 | My son, husband, daughter. I wouldn't make anybody's list for smart, and that's not being modest, either. Now ask who's the funniest person you know, and I'd be up there on somebody's list. "My one regret in life is that I'm not somebody else." - Woody Allen |
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Jul 28, 2007, 10:10 am
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 Throbbing Member  Location: Old Europe Posts: 7,439 | Smartest? Hard to say. My ex-colleague Rowena? Wisest? Dunno. Charo maybe? See? This thread is doomed. No way we can explain ourselves sufficiently to the others. "I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything." -- Viscount Melbourne |
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