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

"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

"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."

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

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

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

"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."
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