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I did an IQ test, a genuine one, in grade eight. They never did tell me my IQ. I know that my lowest section, I was in the 88th percentile and there were sections that I was in the 99th percentile. I did the test on the mensa website and they said that I might be a candidate for mensa if I took another IQ test. A professor at college once told me that I was the smartest student he had. I think I'm gifted, but I am also one of the people that ruins the correlation between giftedness and success.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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