"Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there."

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Source : "'He tried his best to veil it, but Obama is an intellectual'" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

Jonathan Raban

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“Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.”
“I certainly do all sorts of work. I'm very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that's really exciting for me.”

Source : "Gina Holden Talks Syfy’s JULES VERNE'S MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and FRINGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 13, 2012.
“If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.”
“You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have...freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.”
“No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.”
“Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.”
“I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.”
“Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.”

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