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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

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Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

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In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

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Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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I don't like the intellectual label. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming! ↗

— Ricky Gervais

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What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. ↗

— Robert Graves

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