#elle

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have. ↗

— Patti Smith

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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#feebleness #forgetting #fortify #human #intellect

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ↗

— Sophocles

#bloated #ever #excellence #house #luxury

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#difficult #equilibrium #establishing #identity #intellectuals

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#could #evade #failure #general #ignore

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#complexity #does #growing #imply #intellectual

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#being happy #great #happy #having #intellect

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#best #choice #class #education #equal

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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