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To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectua

To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. – Jacob Bronowski

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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. – Jacob Bronowski

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Science
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. – Jacob Bronowski

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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. – Jacob Bronowski

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Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I dont care where it is, when they look at me its not about my intelligence. Its who can I beat up. – Danny Aiello

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We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. – Condoleezza Rice

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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. – Josh Billings

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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. – Phaedrus

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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. – Northrop Frye

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Character develops itself in the stream of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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