Intellectual Quotes
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
Hamza Yusuf
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One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.
Ted Yoho
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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
Charles Frankel
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I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.
Ermanno Olmi
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Ted Nelson
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. Naipaul
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Sam Brownback
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Manuel Puig
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We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.
Naval Ravikant
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
Larry Kramer
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
Karen Robards
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
Rachel Cusk
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra
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Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.
Mustafa Akyol
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Vaclav Havel
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
J. D. Vance
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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
Freya Stark
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
Maimonides
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust