"Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application."

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Source : Roger Kimball (2002). “Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse”, Ivan R Dee

Roger Kimball

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“The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.”

Source : Holly Sklar (1980). “Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management”, p.44, South End Press
“It's tough. I mean the thing is that people don't realize how much people are looking at you and judging you and constantly try to, I guess, watch you fail, and hoping you do fail.”
“When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you've learned in your drills are better than your opponent's. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.”
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
“I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.”
“You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.”
“For me, life without murder is like a life without food. I was the father of these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world.”
“I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.”

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