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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

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I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. ↗

— Ralph Nader

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ↗

— George Orwell

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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗

— George Orwell

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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ↗

— George Orwell

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