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Max Waller
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“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.”
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“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
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“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
― The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
― The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained!!!”
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“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.”
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Max’s 2025 Year in Books
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