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• There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.

  Bill Whittle

  Book, Emotional, Self

  "Rafts". Introduction by Bill Whittle to his book "An American Civilization", web.archive.org. June 18, 2006.

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• I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

  Eddie Murphy

  Want, Wells, I Want A Woman

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• I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, Style, Faults

  "Belafonte won't back down from Powell slave reference", www.cnn.com. October 16, 2002.

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• I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

  Don Adams

  Religious, Belief, Remember

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• Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

  Julia Stiles

  Jobs, Stars, College

  People Magazine, April 6, 2004.

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• My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

  Suzanne Vega

  World, Emotion, Responsible

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• A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Choices, Animal Rights, Vegetarian

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• Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

  Keri Russell

  Mean, Flirting, Dinner

  "Keri Russell on the Art of Eating, Afternoon Wine, and Bad Music". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, Damon Gardner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along.   As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Successful, Compassion

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• Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

  Hans Asperger

  Adaptation, Social

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• Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one another beautifully to a dance. She dares to be at play in the most unsettling questions of her day. Surely when the present generation of writers shakes down to its unique and irreplaceable voices, Kellie Wells will be one of them.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Unique, Play, Voice

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• Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only prayer can give it the fervor of the Spirit. Theology is light, prayer is fire.

  Olivier Clement

  Prayer, Fire, Light

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• Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, fuels our love and carries our friendships, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limits... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turn it upside down... In my life I want to create passion in my own life and with those I care for. I want to feel, experience and live every emotion. I will suffer through the bad for the heights of the good.

  Pat Tillman

  Uplifting, Passion, Cutting

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• Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

  Averroes

  Conformity, Objects

  Tahafut at-tahafut (ca. 1180)

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• The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, People, Worry

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• Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Views

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 8, 1927.

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• The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Optimistic, Voice, Doe

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• Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Intellectual, Mind

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• Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

  Jacques Barzun

  Swings, Intellectual, Privilege

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

  Jacques Barzun

  Character, Small Acts, Long

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

  Will Durant

  Religious, Father, House

  "Story of Philosophy".

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• Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

  Michelangelo

  Pride, Order, People

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• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

  Rumi

  Angel, Animal, Lust

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• ...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction...the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.

  John Blacking

  Music, Spring, Creativity

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• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Children, Skills

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