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#intellectuals

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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.


Patricia Briggs


#practicality-for-intellectuals #truth-telling #inspirational

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


Jacques Barzun


#another #cause #chief #intellectuals #works

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.


Ray Conniff


#artists #difference #intellectuals #just #just one

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.


Samuel Fuller


#common #common sense #intellectuals #many #pistol

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.


Hu Shih


#began #chinese #chinese people #contacts #country

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.


Tiffany Madison


#control #desperation #freedom #love #lover

The world is a state of mind, so choose your profession according to your state, because a lot of governments kill intellectuals


Benson Bruno


#government #humor #intellectuals #funny

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.


Criss Jami


#complication #genius #intelligence #practicality #practicality-for-intellectuals

You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters," he raged, at one point in their conversation ... "Naturally," Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. "It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.


Paul Bowles


#nature

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.


Louis-Ferdinand Celine


#advice #being #forget #friend #give






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