#intellectual

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. ↗

— Howard Berman

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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. ↗

— Karel Capek

#capacity #dear #glory #intellectual #mechanically

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ↗

— Albert Camus

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#label #me #misunderstanding

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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

— J. M. Coetzee

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