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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
"No one can do the learning for you."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
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"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists."
"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."
"Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm."
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