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"Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them."
"Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it."
"A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way."
"In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow."
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect."
"Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner."
"Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind."
"The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers."
"The computer is a moron."
"Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth.""
"A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual."
"This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us."
"Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor."
"Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God."
"Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle."
"Brains are an asset, if you hide them."
"As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion."
"You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that."
