Vernon A. Walters - Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they ...

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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Vernon A. Walters

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Amerikaner hatten immer eine ambivalente Haltung gegenüber Intelligenz. Wenn sie sich bedroht fühlen, wollen sie viel davon, und wenn nicht, betrachten sie das Ganze als etwas unmoralisch.

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