Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Bell Hooks The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Junius The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Oscar Wilde The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Louise Bogan The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Barry Levinson The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bill Alexander The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • Warren Buffett The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Harold Nicolson The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
    Harold Nicolson
    British writer, diplomat and politician (1886 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Barney Frank The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
    KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) (RealAudio)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ezra Pound The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Christopher Lasch The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Charles Reade The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
    Charles Reade
    British writer (1814 - 1884)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • B. F. Skinner The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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