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"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."	Chinua Achebe
"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."	Douglas Noel Adams
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."	Henry Brooks Adams
"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own."	Henry Brooks Adams
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts."	Henry Brooks Adams
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact."	James Truslow Adams
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."	John Quincy Adams
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."	Scott Adams
"I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual."	John Fellows Akers
"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction"	Hoshang N. Akhtar
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."	Edward Albee
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven."	Woody Allen
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."	Maya Angelou
"For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."	Maya Angelou
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."	Moshe Arens
"What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error."	Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."	Saint Augustine
"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat."	Sri da Avabhas
"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself."	Alfred Jules Ayer
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."	Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Charles Galloway	Charles McCabe	Charles Robert Darwin
Chinua Achebe	Clarence Day	Clifton Paul Fadiman
Clive Staples Lewis	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Daniel Day Lewis
Dave Barry	David Fasold	David P(ierpont) Gardner
Dean Koontz	Dee W. Hock	Denis Diderot
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Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edgar Watson Howe	Edward Albee	Edward de Bono
Erica Mann Jong	Erich Fromm	Eric Mascall
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene V. Debs	Eugenio Montale
Euripides	E. M. Cioran	Felix Cohen
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Flower A. Newhouse	Fran Lebowitz
Frank Kingdon	Friedrich August von Hayek	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	Galileo Galilei	George Eliot
Gerald	Gerald W. Grummet	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Giuseppe Mazzini	G. H. Hardy	Hal Borland
Harry Emerson Fosdick	Heinrich Heine	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Ford	Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Graham Greene
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield	Herbert Clark Hoover
Hermes	Hoshang N. Akhtar	Irish Blessing
Isadora Duncan	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Maritain
Jacques Martin Barzun	James Branch Cabell	James Dent
James Russel Lowell	James Truslow Adams	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Johann Kepler	John Dewey
John Keats	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John Fellows Akers
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Junor	John L. Casteel
John Quincy Adams	Joseph Mazzini	Josiah Gilbert Holland
Juliene Berk	Julius Henry Marx	Kahlil Gibran
Katherine Graham	Kevin R. Hutson	Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Lao-Tzu	Lavina Goodell	Lazarus Long
Leonardo da Vinci	Lord Billingsley	Lord Melbourne
Lucille Ball	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marsha Evans
Martin H. Fischer	Mary McLeod Bethune	Max Born
Maya Angelou	Michael Korda	Miles Kindera
Millicent Carey McIntosh	Missy Good	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Monica Baldwin	Mort Crim	Moshe Arens
Newt Gingrich	Niall MacDermot	Nikki Giovanni
Norman Cousins	Norman Mailer	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Nader	Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron	Rita Mae Brown
Robert	Robertson Davies	Robert Anson Heinlein
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll	Robert Hewison
Robert Keith Leavitt	Roger	Roger John
Ruth Gordon	Saint Augustine	Saul Bellow
Scott Adams	Shakti Gawain	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sigmund Freud	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir William Alton Jones	Sir William Henry Bragg	Sri da Avabhas
Srully D. Blotnick	Stan Getz	Stephen Crane
Stephen William Hawking	Sybil Marshall	Sydney J. Harris
S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Arnold Bennett	Thomas Henry Huxley	Truman Capote
T. S. Eliot	Uta Hagan	Victor Hugo
Václav Havel	Warren G. Bennis	Willa Sibert Cather
William James	William Bolitho	William Ellery Channing
William Faulkner	William Ralph Inge	William Seward Burroughs
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