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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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"All great peoples are conservative."
Conservative
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence
"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
Life
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart
"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
Perspective
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
Man
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Wisdom
"Thought is the parent of the deed."
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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
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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."
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"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."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
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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."
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"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."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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