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Comment author: [deleted] 27 December 2011 05:02:14PM 15 points [-]

Upvoted for this:

If you are always the smartest guy in the room, chances are you have not worked hard enough to find the right room.

Comment author: Apprentice 30 December 2011 02:23:45PM 3 points [-]

If Reagan or FDR or Washington ever caught themselves thinking "I'm the smartest guy in this room" their immediate reaction would have been: "Uh-oh, I'd better get some smarter guys in here, pronto!"

Steve Sailer

Comment author: mytyde 13 November 2012 10:10:02PM 1 point [-]

Reagan had Alzheimers throughout his second term, and if he didn't have clinical alzheimers during his first term, it's not difficult to demonstrate that a pre-Alzheimers condition isn't much better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONNMiuWI4Fo&feature=related http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_01/027551.php

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