My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were… — David Gross Copy Share Image
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We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end...… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
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I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I am a conservative. I have said I don't know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
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Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
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I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
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Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
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Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
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Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
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The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued,… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
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