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  So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

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• Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion’s imminent demise.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.

  Gerald Brenan

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• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

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• We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

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• Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

  Steven Pinker

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• My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  Sara Paretsky

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• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  Samuel Fuller

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• It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

  Norman Tebbit

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• I know I’ve got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I’ve got a lifesaving certificate but I don’t spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

  Victoria Wood

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• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the ’40s.

  Parker Stevenson

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• An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.

  Spiro T. Agnew

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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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