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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies.

Alphabet Juice (2008)

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

I know, you want to make a citizen's arrest of anyone whose menu lists "Idaho potato baked in it's skin," but you can't.

Alphabet Juice (2008)

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

Long Time Leaving (2007)

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

Alphabet Juice (2008)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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