"Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers."
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"This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy."
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"I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply."
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"When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy."
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"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought."
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"living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it."
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"The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse."
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"There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being."
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"Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel."
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"Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time of his death, his fundamental way of thought had supplanted the system of John Maynard Keynes - his chief intellectual rival of the century - in the battle since the 1930s for the minds of economists and the policies of governments."
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"The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers."
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"The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form."
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"It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee."
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"The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."
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"My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
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"The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred."
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"(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach."
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"Some are born great, others achieve greatness."
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"Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants."
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"We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure."
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