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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emil Cioran
Best
Possible
Status
Intellectual
Nationality
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard Shaw
Work
Humorous
Genuinely
Intellectual
The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.
Henry Kissinger
Values
Other
Significant
Attacks
Part
Academic
Reaction
Trump
Intellectual
America
Middle
Communities
Reasons
Large
Large Part
Phenomenon
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick
Knowledge
Business
Big
Before
Profit
Systems
About
Thrill
Pursuit
Hackers
Hacking
Big Business
Intellectual
Intellectual Curiosity
Curiosity
Breaking
Now
In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
Madonna Ciccone
You
Business
People
Incredible
Meet
Kinds
Sexy
Glamorous
Highly
Tracks
Go
Intellectual
Very
Get
Stop
Interesting
Them
Your
Many
Fascinating
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert Bork
Religion
Science
Believe
Respectable
Atheism
Religious
Classes
Only
Superstition
Tend
Highly
Major
Obstacle
Primitive
Renewal
Intellectual
Left
Influential
Stance
View
Who
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
Aaron Sorkin
Me
World
Thought
First
Drama
Extraordinary
Further
Frankly
Drew
Properties
Network
Networking
Had
Device
Liked
Most
Because
Got
Courtroom
Intellectual
Antisocial
Person
Story
Social
Then
Created
Cool
Ever
Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
Alexander Payne
Way
Rigor
Like
Encourage
Intellectual
Jesuits
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
Bill Evans
Me
People
Words
Try
Feeling
Jazz
Analyze
Part
Bugs
Because
Intellectual
Children
Explain
Translate
Really
Theorem
Reason
Therefore
Why
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
Camille Paglia
Generation
People
Thanks
Young
Older
Those
Enter
Has-Been
Rupture
Writers
Since
Major
Most
Were
Been
Continuity
Intellectual
North
North American
American
Did
Forgotten
Influenced
Young People
Breakthroughs
American Writers
Older Generation
Professions
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Poverty
Conviction
Allied
Never
Naive
Known
Greater
Intellectual
Much
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather
Think
Ranger
William
Tell
Lone
Lone Ranger
Someone
Intellectual
Snob
Listen
Who
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell
Knowledge
World
Own
Field
Relates
Out
Seeks
Point
Self
Takes
Terrain
Accepts
Scientist
His
Existing
Intellectual
Unexplored
Sensibilities
Map
Starting
Starting Point
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
David Ben-Gurion
Fight
People
World
Heroism
New
Israel
Intellectual
Created
Working
Image
Jew
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
David Gross
Mother
Father
Our
Kinds
Self-Confidence
Thus
Ideas
Equals
Intellectual
Greatly
Children
Interest
Us
Treated
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
David Seabury
Thoughts
You
Simple
Think
Complex
Seem
Through
Obscure
Clear
Comradeship
Make
Intellectual
Quite
Where
Place
Requires
Your
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
Edward T. Hall
Me
People
Giving
Giving Up
Few
Radical
Thinking
Willing
Would
Risk
Him
Understood
Ballast
His
Intellectual
Up
Few People
Move
Meant
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
Emma Goldman
Sad
Character
Result
Mind
Radical
Chaos
Indefinite
Possible
Hash
Neither
Uncertain
Ideas
Most
Sort
Nor
Methods
Intellectual
Contradictory
American
Taste
Movement
Which
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
Etty Hillesum
Life
Greed
Mental
Indigestion
Attempt
Absorb
Massive
Well
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
Information
Figures
Amount
Consequent
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
Faith
Will
Minds
Those
Destroy
Out
Vanity
Attempt
Always
Intellectual
Very
Little
Little Minds
Who
Display
Foundations
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
Helen Fisher
Together
Research
Staying
Similarities
Couples
Intellectual
Lot
End
Up
Who
Shows
Including
Compatibility
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Great
Reality
Joy
Breath
Photograph
Physical
Faculties
Mastering
Becomes
Intellectual
Precise
Hold
Converge
Fleeting
Moment
Capture
Image
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
Howard Dean
Hope
Leadership
You
Party
Whatever
Congress
Think
Desperately
Run
Gingrich
Some
He
Supply
Ideas
Does
Intellectual
Republican
Republican Party
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Now
Right
Need
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Jacob Bronowski
Me
Pleasure
About
Taking
Knowing
Issues
Intellectual
Being
Mean
Them
Means
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
John Green
Music
Great
You
Emotions
Arc
Trip
Various
Through
Takes
Almost
Feel
Like
Concert
Go
Intellectual
Forms
Engagement
Set
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin
Education
Government
Food
People
First
Duty
Clothes
Moral
See
Intellectual
Fuel
Means
Second
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