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

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

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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."

Ernestine Rose, American Activist

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

Temple Grandin, American Educator

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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 can do the learning for you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."

Ernest Newman, English Critic

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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."

Guru Nanak, Indian Philosopher

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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

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"I am a Moroccan writer of French expression."

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"For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history."

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"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

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"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."

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"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

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"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."

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

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"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."

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

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