"Faith is intellectual laziness."
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"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."
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"So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants."
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"I'm a private intellectual, not a public one."
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"Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant."
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"I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people."
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"In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that "we must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years.""
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"I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all."
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"The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth."
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"There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless."
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"It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits."
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"In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds."
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"In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level."
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"The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned."
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"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
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"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most."
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"The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects."
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"How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?"
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"What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree."
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"You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews."
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