"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
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Source: Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”
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