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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."	Albert Camus
"The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism."	Albert Camus
"It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year."	Truman Capote
"Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt."	Thomas Carlyle
"One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact: that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise."	John L. Casteel
"Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values."	Willa Sibert Cather
"To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth."	William Ellery Channing
"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves."	William Ellery Channing
"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish."	E. M. Cioran
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."	Arthur C(harles) Clarke
"Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories."	Felix Cohen
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."	(Alfred) "Alistair" Cooke
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."	Norman Cousins
"What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too."	Norman Cousins
"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'"	Stephen Crane
"It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts."	Mort Crim
"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."	Amanda Cross
"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question."	Aleister Crowley
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Frank Kingdon	Friedrich August von Hayek	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Giuseppe Mazzini	G. H. Hardy	Hal Borland
Harry Emerson Fosdick	Heinrich Heine	Henrik Ibsen
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Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield	Herbert Clark Hoover
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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
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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
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Monica Baldwin	Mort Crim	Moshe Arens
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Srully D. Blotnick	Stan Getz	Stephen Crane
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