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Wiping off the English grin: in the age of terrorism.("Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain")(Book review)
I have never called myself an intellectual, and nobody has ever dared to call me one in my presence.
--Bertrand Russell
It is the self-imposed assignment of neo-conservatives to explain to the American people why they are right, and to the intellectuals why they are wrong.
--Irving Kristol
To the man in the street who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life,
The word intellectual suggests right away
A man who's untrue to his wife.
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