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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."
"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."
"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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