#elle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#marxism #opium

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#himself #peter #peter sellers #reinvented #sellers

She was short on intellect, but long on shape. ↗

— George Ade

#long #shape #she #short

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#country #french #i #repelled #their

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

#fire #life #master #money #respects

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

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