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Chess is a highly intellectual game.
Everyone has his intellectual desire; mine is to escape life as I know it.
I enjoy intellectual conversations.
It is important to have intellectual curiosity.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Wearing glasses makes you look more intellectual.
Doing nothing is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
A film director should be very intelligent, but if possible, not an intellectual - for the intellectual is the deadly enemy of all performing arts.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort.
Where is the intellectual challenge in this?
In the scientific world, there is a lot of intellectual hypocrisy.
Disney strip-mines the world's fairy tales for ideas and then sues people for intellectual property infringement.
Esperanto helped me broaden my intellectual and cultural horizons.
When I call someone stupid, it's not an insult. I'm indicating to him that he has broad potential for intellectual development.
Tom is an intellectual.
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His intellectual legacy would have turned your world, with its police protection, on its head!
It has been an intellectual treat to me to see the way in which you grappled with this matter.
You're the worst kind there is an intellectual snob.
But if he shouldn't turn out to be an intellectual?
That they lack, for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy headpieces.
You have an intellectual expression, and intellect destroys the beauty of any face.
The few are those men of such intellectual and cultural superiority that they're above the traditional moral concepts.
I wouldn't know about that intellectual stuff.
What is this, an intellectual issue?
She counts for nothing in my intellectual life.
An intellectual carrot.
This is Leopoldo, the intellectual.
I thought intellectual giants were supposed to be backwards and shy.
It was a question of science, doctor. But you can imagine my joy when I discovered that the shock..had permanently- - Permanently doubled my intellectual capacity.
It is deplorable, Professor Moriarty, that a man of your intellectual attainments should be standing in the prisoner's box charged with a crime of murder.
The 18th century was the high point of man's intellectual development.
If you must record my exploits I do wish you would put less emphasis on the melodramatic and more on the intellectual issues involved.
Me, I've been an intellectual mountain goat, leaping from crag to crag, trying everything.
We stayed home for an altogether different reason. Tonight it's for an intellectual reason.
One of the things that he did, which doesn't seem to me to be all that intellectual or method-y, was study the way priests walked in that cassock and imitate it perfectly.
I didn't as I thought you'd be an intellectual, with glasses.
But you can imagine my joy when I discovered that the shock had permanently. Permanently doubled my intellectual capacity.
All that intellectual bullshit!
It says something to you because you are intellectual, always thinking.
The Academy this year, has selected for it's Banner Pupil.. It's model of intellectual youth. None other than Monsieur Charlemagne de La Tour La Tour.
I'm not a man of action, I'm an intellectual.
That they lack; for if their heads had any intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy head-pieces.
I don't know, I. thought it gave me a sort of intellectual look.
There's Melli. Ask him where the other intellectual is.
Your daughter, at her present stage of development is roughly on an intellectual par with the African gorilla.
What a shame that I didn't marry my intellectual equal.
Just like this friend of yours, the intellectual.
As star pupil you should convince with intellectual power, should you not?
It begins with intellectual interests that can gradually lead to serious entanglements.
No, I guess my intellectual capacities are limited.
News and current affairs
Communism, still wrapped in the laurel leaf of anti-fascism, had a wide intellectual and emotional appeal, not only in the so-called Third World, but also in Western Europe.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen attributed the European crisis to four failures - political, economic, social, and intellectual.
An Arab intellectual persecuted by an Arab regime, it seems, is nowhere near the top of their agenda.
At a minimum, they should have the rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture that we grant to all members of our own species, regardless of their intellectual abilities.
In the year since the terrorist attacks of September 11 th, questions about Islam - its nature, its distinctive identity, its potential threat to the West - have seized center stage in intellectual and political debates.
But countries like Lebanon have become resistant to its effects - for example, by developing creative industries - diminishing its negative impact on economic, social, and intellectual development.
The intellectual father of the euro, Columbia University's Robert Mundell, once famously opined that the optimal number of currencies in the world is an odd number, preferably less than three.
You may not care a whit about chess, long regarded as the ultimate intellectual sport.
There is, of course, a balance to be struck between tight institutional discipline and letting a hundred intellectual flowers bloom.
Lackluster enforcement of intellectual property rights exacerbates the problem considerably, hampering US exports of software and entertainment.
Japan's current lethargy is due, in part, to the in-bred languor of Japanese intellectual life.
As late as the 1980s, only two out of ten Taiwanese who studied in the US returned home, due to its bleak social, intellectual and political environment.
These differences reflect the intellectual richness of neo-classical economics, but they provide no justification for the claim that there is one economics.
However, it fails to engage the deep intellectual divisions regarding economic development, trade, and globalization, because it refuses to admit the legitimacy of such disagreements.
Indeed, beyond day-to-day policies, Arafat has constructed the Palestinian movement's intellectual and psycho-political style, which is dogmatic and uncompromising.
This brings us to the intellectual challenge of superconductors.
Outsourcing and intellectual property. Notwithstanding some recent modest improvements in the US labor market, America's job situation remains terrible.
And they have not stopped innovative Western companies from putting their intellectual property and new technologies on the line in China in order to deliver spectacular new products to US customers (think Apple).
But he also had to maintain his intellectual integrity.
Constant intimidation by religious extremists and political factions is the intellectual's fate in Iraq today.
In an uncertain age, whoever defines us first, whether a politician, an artist, or an intellectual, will merit a prominent place in our history.
Heath was deeply unpopular. But the opposition Labour Party was not convincing either, and had little in the way of an intellectual alternative.
Singapore may be efficient, and relatively free of corruption; but it is also a rather sterile place, with little room for intellectual or artistic achievement.
The strength of the Bretton Woods institutions lies in intellectual diversity, and the Fund benefited from Wolfensohn's honesty, as well as from his commitment to Bank-Fund cooperation, which progressively deepened during the past decade.
His war on Islam is also, and perhaps even mainly, a war on the cultural and political elites, the Dutch intellectual establishment, the Eurocrats of Brussels, and the liberal-minded queen.
Both positions are hopelessly buried in intellectual and moral fog.