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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ↗

— Robert Hall

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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. ↗

— Brad Holland

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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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