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F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." — F. Scott Fitzgerald (Sample epigraph — or use one of your own; you said it sharply in, that people think they think, but mostly it is just self-criticism passing for thought.) In the last chapter we met the pilot. […] It is, at once, the most powerful tool you will ever be handed and the least reliable. It can hold two opposed ideas at the same time and keep flying; it can also lie to you so smoothly that you will swear you are seeing the truth. The Apostle Paul caught the bewilderment of it: I do not understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate, that I do. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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