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The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much...

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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate ...

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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those...

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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire...

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He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...

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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insi...

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All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use an...

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Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledg...

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This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship!

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship o...

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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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They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up ...

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Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Chur...

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My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union ...

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I would live to study not study to live.

I would live to study not study to live.

I would live to study not study to live.

I would live to study not study to live.

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

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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly s...

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Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

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Jacques BarzunFrom Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...

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Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.