"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have."
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"In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothersโ€™ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope."
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"Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them."
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"If reason ruled the world would history even exist?"
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"I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place"
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"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."
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"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"
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"What I learned on my own I still remember"
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"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
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"Why do I do anything' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream."
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"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
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"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]"
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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"[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex."
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"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied."
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"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."
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"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
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"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."
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"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
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"I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker, he continued, as though he had not heard her. We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything."
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