#intel

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite. ↗

— L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

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It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. ↗

— Gary Coleman

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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything. ↗

— Gary Coleman

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Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ↗

— Albert Camus

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