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"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."

Lennart Meri, Estonian Statesman
Intellectual, Intellect, Passion, Traveling
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"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."

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"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
World,
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"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
Time, Measure
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"Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave."
Time, Day, Waste
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"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
World,
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"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."
Time, Ability, Fishermen, Past
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"If geography is prose, maps are iconography."
Knowledge, Geography, Prose
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
Politics, Compliments
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"History is more interesting than politics."
History, Politics
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"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."
Security,
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"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature."
Nature, Science, Cities, Will

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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Elizabeth Bibesco, British Poet
Intellectual, Hygiene, Irony, Mind
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"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."

Uwe Boll, German Director
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher
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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher
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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist
Intellectual, Hearing, Intellect, Rest, Voice
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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

George Gissing, British Novelist
Intellectual, Vice
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

Temple Grandin, American Educator
Intellectual, Intellect, Satisfaction
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"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet
Intellectual, Intellectuals, Mediocrity, State
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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, French Poet
Intellectual, Intellectuals, World, Writers
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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet
Intellectual, Intellectuals
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