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Quote by Virginia Woolf
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the m

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. – Virginia Woolf

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – Virginia Woolf

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I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence. – Tony Goldwyn

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Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we cant make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. – Jay Rockefeller

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Ive always felt, in all my books, that theres a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. – Studs Terkel

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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. – William Irwin Thompson

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