"I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual."
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"What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"
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"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
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"The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
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"Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself."
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"I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development."
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"The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value."
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"Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance."
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"[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home."
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"One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans."
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"The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it."
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"It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point."
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"To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever."
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"There were different heroes with different images. There was Mike Tyson, the animal, there was Evander Holyfield, the devout, the priest. And there was me, the thinker, the intellectual boxer. So there was something for every fan, if you like. The public could always identify with one of us."
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"The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated."
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"Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies."
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"The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect."
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"I don't like the intellectual label."
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"You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables."
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"The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying."
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