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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

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The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

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[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

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All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

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What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

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I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

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