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Are these people smart?!
These quotes show people doing different kinds of things. Would you say these people were smart? Why or why not?!
Restless, Sid finally opened his textbooks. As he read,, the present and its complexities seemed to fade. The world of physics, of energy, opened new
vistas, new potentials to explore, and he was fascinated. In the bibliography, he carefully noted books that he hoped to obtain from the public library. He
jotted down notes as ideas came to him, and generated other ideas. That was really what thinking was, he told himself: the setting off of a chain reaction,
each link forged to another, an endless series of possibilities.
- John F. Carson, The Coach Nobody Liked, p.75.
Hermione looked at the pair of them with an almost pitying expression on her face.
"Don't you understand how Cho's feeling at the moment?" she asked.
"No," said Harry and Ron together.
"Well, obviously she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry,
and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and she'll
be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings toward
Harry are anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when he died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she's afraid she's going
to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's been flying so badly."
A slightly stunned silence greeeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode."
"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, p.459.
Richie couldn't take his eyes off Danny and Ty Ross.
They were doing what good, smart players could always do.
Make the game nice. (...)
They worked the pick-and-roll. When they had a chance to get out and run the fast break, Ty would get the ball off the boards and throw a blind pass nearly
to half-court, knowing Danny would already be there.
Or: Ty would raw two of three defenders to him in the low blocks and then kick it out to Danny, who kept launching that funny shot of his - though he was
getting it more out in front, like Richie had showed him - and scoring with ease from the outside.
Then Richie would wait to see a smile or a fist-pump from his kid, or any kind of change of expression.
Only Danny never would.
Like this was the way it was supposed to be.
- Mike Lupica, Travel Team, p.65
She had been watching the wolves for two days, trying to discern which of their sounds and move ments expressed goodwill and friendship. Most
animals had such signals. The little Arctic ground squirrels flicked their tails sideways to notify others of their kind that they were friendly. By
imitating this signal with her forefinger, Miyax had lured many a squirrel to her hand. If she could discover such a gesture for the wolves she would be
able to make friends with them and share their food, like a bird or a fox.
- Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves, Chapter 1.
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