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intellectual weakness mysterious
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
intellectual widows want
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, Chris Christie
intellectual style canada
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia
intellectual speak tradition
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
intellectual age hussain
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. Edward Gibbon
intellectual politics moral
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. Frederic Bastiat
intellectual labels misunderstanding
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. Dick Cavett
intellectual might persuading
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin Land
intellectual progress adequate
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural. Bertrand Russell
laziness habit familiar
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Jane Hirshfield
laziness fatigue
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. Charles Spurgeon
laziness poverty slowly soon travels
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin
laziness domain familiar
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad. Aleksandar Hemon
laziness youth tricks
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. Jane Austen
laziness built
Laziness is built deep into our nature. Daniel Kahneman
laziness weak-spots cookies
My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. Anthony Hopkins
laziness ruins stopping
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road Henry Ward Beecher
laziness want today
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. Jean-Paul Sartre