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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lon...

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After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolo...

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I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat ...

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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually s...

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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul...

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H. L. MenckenOn Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I sai...

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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the in...

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I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]

She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up fr...

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Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...

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English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and a...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old ari...

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No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.""You're insane, man. You've handed...

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The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of beli...

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters: Also Includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"

People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. The...

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...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in...

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