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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"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."
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
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"Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere."
"Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money."
"The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement."
"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
"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."
"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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