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Quotation #90 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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, "The Crack-Up" (1936)
US novelist (1896 - 1940)  

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  • The essay continues with this sentence: "One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." [note by Michael Moncur, June 15, 2005]

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