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From: hbb@mtx5d.UUCP (H.B.Braude)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Money vs. Good looks
Message-ID: <683@mtx5d.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 08:46:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 08:46:42 1985
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I tried to send this article as a letter  by  mail  several  time
over  that  last week, but it kept bouncing back (I tried several
different sites.) It is a response to a question posted by  Marie
Desjardins...

References: <253@unc.UUCP> <270@looking.UUCP>, <371@h-sc1.UUCP>
With regard to your question as to why people value  intelligence
over  other  attributes that a person may possess, I suggest that
it is because intelligence is what we consider to be the  primary
difference  between  ourselves and the other forms of life in the
world.

Many animals run faster, work harder  and  longer  than  can  any
person.  But  none  possess  the  ability  to communicate through
language as people do (I  recognize  that  there  is  a  form  of
communication  between  animals,  but  the  meaning is  generally
understood to be restricted  to  the  immediate  fulfillment   of
bodily    needs    rather   than   something   philosophical   or
intellectual.)
-- 
Harlan B. Braude
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