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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."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
"No one can do the learning for you."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."
"We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries."
"Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf."
"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."
"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
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