If you explore beneath shyness or party chit chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non intellectuals have never stirred.
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In the U.S. You have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom.. Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
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Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry
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Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.
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It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.
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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals
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No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
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We have hired an entire train and about 1,500 sex workers accompanied by intellectuals and social activists will proceed to New Delhi.
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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
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[In another one of his banned books,] Rejecting Lies,.. Under the pressure of ideology and the temptation of market economy, intellectuals have not become the society's pillar in the midst of the breakdown of moral values but have become the most thoroughly corrupt bunch of people.
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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas.. That it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
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A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
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At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity. I have my own differences with both of these savants, but is the Republican Party really prepared to disown such modern intellectuals as it can claim, in favor of a shallow, demagogic and above all sectarian religiosity?Perhaps one could phrase the same question in two further ways. At the last election, the GOP succeeded in increasing its vote among American Jews by an estimated five percentage points. Does it propose to welcome these new adherents or sympathizers by yelling in the tones of that great Democrat bigmouth William Jennings Bryan? By insisting that evolution is 'only a theory'? By demanding biblical literalism and by proclaiming that the Messiah has already shown himself? If so, it will deserve the punishment for hubris that is already coming its way. (The punishment, in other words, that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson believed had struck America on Sept. 11, 2001. How can it be that such grotesque characters, calling down divine revenge on the workers in the World Trade Center, are allowed a respectful hearing, or a hearing at all, among patriotic Republicans?)
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Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone. Our seeds are disappearing.
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I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with... For example, intellectuals like to dress themselves up as peasants... But it never works. The intellectual's constitution is impervious to such things - it permits only one object of worship - oneself. Generally speaking, an intellectual in the contemporary version is an exceptionally resourceful and, essentially, pitiful being.
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The world is a state of mind, so choose your profession according to your state, because a lot of governments kill intellectuals
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