"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."

Intellectual, Intellectuals

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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."

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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

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"No one can do the learning for you."

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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

George Gissing, British Novelist

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"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."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."

John McCarthy, American Politician

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

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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

Margaret Anderson, American Editor

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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"No one knows a man better than himself."

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"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."

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"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."

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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"No one can do the learning for you."

"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."

"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."

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

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"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."

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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."

"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."

"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."

"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."

"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."

"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."

"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."

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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."

"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."