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If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.
I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.
The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".
China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.
Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.
The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.
Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.
[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.
When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.