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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."

"No one can do the learning for you."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."

"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."

"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."

"Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman."

"For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."

"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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