Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Edward genially enough did not disagree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the ad hominem to point out that his life 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.  

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Aldous Huxley  - Quotes

 An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. 

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George Orwell  - Quotes

 There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. 

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