Intellectual Quotes - Page 4

• They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Survival, Locks, Economy

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• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Ideas, Economic Globalization

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• For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Tea, Beverages, Nervous

  "The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Including All His Contributions to Periodical Literature".

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• Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

  Steve Ballmer

  Cancer, Linux, Property

  "Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times". Interview with Dave Newbart, web.archive.org. June 1, 2001.

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• Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Intelligence, Each Day

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• A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Degrees, Seems

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Giving, Effort, Pleasure

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• The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

  Noam Chomsky

  Floating, May, Littles

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

  Craig Ferguson

  Pseudo, Pseudo Intellectuals

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• Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

  Maxim Gorky

  Class, Growth, Intelligence

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• To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

  Jacques Maritain

  Essence

  "Freedom in the Modern World". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 6), 1933.

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• Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Fields, Moral

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• There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Drug, Needs

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• Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Congratulations, Inspired, Incessant

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Men, Profound

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Exercise, Intelligent

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…”, p.1569, e-artnow

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• I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Independent, Views, Trying

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

  Ayn Rand

  Mind, Free Market, Economic Freedom

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

  Robert Barron

  Culture, Resistance, Sickness

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• I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

  William Golding

  Conviction, Pessimist, Optimist

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.211, Penguin

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• Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Watches, Three

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.98, Main Street Books

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• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  William C. Brown

  Country, Religious, Media

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• The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, America, Issues

  "Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. November 19, 1955.

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• Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

  Voltaire

  Stupid, Book, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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