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“I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.”

Felt Fields Intellectual Filmmaker Contribution

Author:Ted Nelson

“To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.”

Play Roles Wonderful Intellectual

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.”

Want Causes Internet Intellectual Innovation Property Rewards Accomplish Meaningful Damage Massive Protected Reduction Ecosystems Intellectual Property Piracy Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Jared Polis

“Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.”

Ifs Intellectual Resources Property Profit Stealing Expensive Site Rogues Intellectual Property

Author:Jared Polis

“I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!”

People Important President Intellectual Excited Disability President Obama Committees Trust Me Advise People With Disabilities Intellectual Disability

Author:Lauren Potter

“They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...”

World Education Teach Intellectual Responsible Practicals Logical Sensible Cynical Clinicals Dependable

Author:Roger Hodgson

“Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.”

World Country Political Universe Religious Media Fields Members Highest Mass Intellectual Research Rate Stupidity Artistic Appeals Scholar Judicial Moron Mass Media Best Place

Author:William C. Brown

“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.”

“Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.”

Should Views Emotional Intellectual Careful Investors Be Careful Skepticism Skeptical

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.”

War States Levels Moral Dangerous Mass Intellectual Lows Entity Antisocial

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.”

Doe Intellectual

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.”

Firsts Age Church Christianity Middle Intellectual West University Paris Empires Middle Ages Roman Empire Oxford Cambridge Roman Civilization Cambridge University

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.”

Ifs Want Should Reason Facts Problem Accepting Intellectual Consequence Suicide Deny Commit No Reason Fund Civilized Outlook Civilized Society Scientific Facts Inhumane

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”

Feelings Process Communication Activity Intellectual Conscious Contrary Rely

Author:Michael Polanyi

“The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.”

Men Wells Position Intellectual Horizon Matched Meteors

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.”

Past Form Literature Emotional Intellectual Creeds Castes

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.”

Years Different Views Focus Intellectual Performances Strategy Constant Point Of View Dialogue Developing Executives Engaging Opposing Different Points Of View

Author:Jeff Raikes

“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.”

Mind Persons States Reason Causes Awareness Particular Buddhism Intellectual Program Attraction State Of Mind Format Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”

Persons Happiness Ignorance Intellectual Inner Peace Ignorant Inner Happiness Inner Peace And Happiness Stupidity And Ignorance

Book:The Works of Anatole France in English: The opinions of Jérôme Coignard

Source: The Works of Anatole France in English: The opinions of Jérôme Coignard

“The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education”

Important Education Events Intellectual American History Harvard Standpoint Takeovers Unitarian

Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

“We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.”

Beautiful Joy Computer Intellectual Losing Track Computer Science Revive Vastness

Author:Jaron Lanier

“We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.”

World Made Ideas Economy Rights Safe Intellectual Property Protection Adopted Innovative Property Rights Patents Intellectual Property

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.”

Has Beens Known Intellectual Tricks Range

Author:William Sanderson

“When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.”

Wells Girl Mets Intellectual Uncles Brilliance Her Beauty

Author:Pope Francis

“There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.”

States Individual Differences Students Intellectual Bars Restriction Refusal

Author:Fred M. Vinson

“Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.”

Mind Hard My Own Hard Work Intellectual Workers Curiosity Busy Hard Worker Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Sam Wyly

“Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.”

Giving Real Enough Process Successful Seeing Information Development Skills Intellectual Senses Happy Life Hinduism Psychics Unreal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.”

Knows Way Has Beens Facts Space Internet Intellectual Property Ideology Progressive Innovative Intellectual Property

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.”

Running Intellectual Thread Premium Physical Courage Personal Courage

Author:Walter Lord

“The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.”

Thinking Way Two Intellectual Economics Absolutes Vices Nonsense Consideration Isolated Ecology Vice Versa Uncommon

Author:Charles C. Mann

“I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well.”

Wells I Can Strong One Thing Type Intellectual Connections Dating Attraction Physical Attraction

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.”

Thinking Intellectual Athletic

Author:Joe Manganiello

“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”

“Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.”

Firsts Young Imagine Mines Intellectual Magazines Articles Essays Young Writers

Author:Ross Douthat

“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.”

Thinking Mind Used Understanding Goal Knowing Intellectual Sake Practicals Used To Be Devoted Pursued Mind Thinking Knowing And Understanding

Author:Gary Gutting

“Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.”

Needs Should Politician Intellectual Should Have Intellectual Life Good Politicians

Author:Gary Gutting

“MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.”

Thinking Writing Helping Teaching Students Materials Citizens Integrity Intellectual Depth Curriculum Teaching Students Bravo

Author:Sam Wineburg

“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.”

Accepting Intellectual Inability Alienation Mystic Handicaps

Book:The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.”

Ifs Mind Happens Young Spirit Powerful Creative Progress Intellectual Contact Worldly Endeavour

Author:Will Self

“You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.”

Ifs Want Needs Normal Projects Intellectual Towns Architecture Making Money Architect Utopian Developers Sponsors

Author:Leon Krier

“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.”

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.”

Facts Reality Emotional Intellectual Cooties

Book:Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Should Reason Enough Humanity Evolution Prove Equal Intellectual Capacity Universal Firm Heritage Reserves Anticipate Equal Power

Book:Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

Source: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

“Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.”

People Hands Moral Virtue Benefits Intellectual Former Latter Moral Virtues

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.”

May Ideas Interest Policy Politician Intellectual Sake

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.”

Community Christianity Intellectual Internals

Book:Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage

Source: Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage

“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”

Stories Shows Seems Belief Easy Fiction Study Shapes Intellectual Evidence Argument Moved Critical Nonfiction Skeptical Shields

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.”

Giving Book Real Age Duty Intellectual Tasks Criticism Critics Credit Honorable Rubbish Shameless Real Power

Book:A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton

Source: A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton

“Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.”

Thinking Humans Has Beens Facts Sides Human Beings Emotion Century Keys Elements Intellectual Aspect Tragic Being Human 20th Century Aspects Of Life

Author:Bill Viola

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