Intellectual

Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist

Intellectual

"I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men."

Men Real Intellectual

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist

Intellectual

"Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom."

Political Challenges Intellectual

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David Bowie Musician, Actor

Intellectual

"Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it."

Wells Intellectual Critics

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David Foster Wallace Writer

Intellectual

"I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I am trying to describe and discuss are beyond my abilities. I am trying, however, the best I can, and will go back over this as carefully as possible when I am finished, and will make changes and corrections whenever I can see a way to make what I'm discussing clearer or more interesting without fabricating anything."

Trying Interesting Intellectual

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Douglas Wilson Author

Intellectual

"We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids."

Kids Christian Intellectual

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Catherine Camus Writer

Intellectual

"Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins."

World Intellectual Paris

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Catherine Camus Writer

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"When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it."

Thinking Intellectual Communist

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Catherine Wilson Philosopher

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"You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, whereas our slavery journey was uni-directional. We are as certain we are not going back to that old kind of slavery as we are that we aren't going back to the geocentric universe."

Thinking Journey Intellectual

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Charles C. Mann Author

Intellectual

"The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa."

Thinking Two Intellectual

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Claude Bernard Physiologist

Intellectual

"Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough."

Long Ideas Intellectual

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Clive James Writer

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"All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power."

Intellectual Corruption Tendencies

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Coco Lee Singer, Actress

Intellectual

"People have to respect intellectual property."

People Intellectual Intellectual Property

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Cornel West Philosopher

Intellectual

"I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire."

Soul Fire Intellectual

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Cynthia Lewis Author

Intellectual

"Getting lost teaches you how to read a map."

Teaching Intellectual Assessment

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Cynthia Lewis Author

Intellectual

"The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus."

Teacher Learning Intellectual

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Cynthia Lewis Author

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"Sometimes it's smart to be scared."

Smart Learning Intellectual

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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer

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"Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing."

Animal Acting Intellectual

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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer

Intellectual

"I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not."

Intellectual Scripts Analysis

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

Intellectual

"[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee."

People Mother Intellectual

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

Intellectual

"Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations."

Intellectual Vices Envy

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