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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Above Communism Compassion Everywhere
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Marxism Opium Intellectuals.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

God Intellectual Levels Metaphor
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Been Century Favor Freedom
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Expect Expect The Unexpected Intellect Modern
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

Brick Certificate Degree Diving
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Ever Frauds Go Intellectual
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Beauty Brilliance Girl Her
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Believe Least Body Role
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I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

About Believe Between Fashion
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Important Keys Healthy body Dynamic
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Mind Richly Tapestry Distilled
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Development Five Hundred Hundred Years
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The young intellectuals are all chanting,

Youn Intellectuals Chanting Revolution
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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

Intellect Desire Outstripped Understanding
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way

Like Many Intellectuals Incapable
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Insight Universal Nature Intellectual.delight
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Collaborate Operate Process Successful
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Army Darkness Find Intellect
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

Bigger Intellectual Look Something
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

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Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

Geometry Enlightens Intellect Set
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Continue Elaborate Elite Fall
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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Best Capital Changed Company
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Businessman Businessmen Came Doctor
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

Intellectual curiosity Professional pride Ambition
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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Books Culture Essays Figure
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Action Fight Intellectually Life
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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.

Education Develops Intellect Creatures
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Abstract Activity Birth Course
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Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

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It can be a little distressing to have to over intellectualize yourself.

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Abstraction Direct Direct Experience Experience
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

According Always Deserves Familiar
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Art Discussion Drama Intellectual
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Behind Slogans Intellectual vacuum
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Confused Emotions Intellect Lie
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Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Before Believe Changes Come
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Action Brought City Conscious
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Time Political opponents Honored me Fabulous
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I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.

Always Behave Desperately Got
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