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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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