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We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. ↗

— Albert Camus

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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but I think that niche is perhaps underserved, so I'm going to serve that. ↗

— Paula Cole

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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually. ↗

— Barry Corbin

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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