intellectuals
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Intellectuals and lawmakers should absolutely be concerned about how and when our children navigate social media.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Intellectuals cut against existing aesthetics to make a place that looked nothing like pastorals or alpine mountains into a compelling spectacle.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2019
Intellectuals like to believe that ideas emerge from a lecture hall and then converts struggle to implement them.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2019
Intellectuals mocked what they called the “enthusiasm” of self-taught preachers whose pulpit thunder exceeded their formal learning, just as the roughhewn itinerants knew little of Isaac Newton.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Intellectuals were stunned at the Aztec books, “which,” one of them said, “almost resemble those of the Egyptians.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
