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The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
— Qui-Gon Jinn • Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Qui-Gon reminds us that talking isn't the same as thinking. Someone can produce a stream of words and still have little sense behind them. Speech is only an ability, and intelligence is something else entirely.
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