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> [Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/two-world-wars-three-monstrous-dictatorships-in-soviet-russia-nazi/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tahar-ben-jelloun/in-the-arab-world-there-is-no-link-between-the-cultural-habits-of/)

[Tahar Ben Jelloun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tahar-ben-jelloun/)

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> [There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lukacs/there-are-innumerable-instances-suggesting-that-modern-intellectuals/)

[John Lukacs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lukacs/)

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> [“The inquiry begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-johnson/the-inquiry-begins-with-jean-jacques-rousseau-1712-78-who-was-the/)

[Paul Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-johnson/)

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> [“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alastair-bonnett/most-modern-intellectuals-and-scientists-have-hardly-any-interest-in/)

[Alastair Bonnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alastair-bonnett/)

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