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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence. ↗

— Larry Ellison

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

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