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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."

"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."

"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

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

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

"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

"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."
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"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."
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