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How to use the word intellectually in a Sentence?

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To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process

Thomas Sowell

added by Normando
4 months ago

The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

John Fiske

added by Normando
1 year ago

We nurture children so they can fly and be set free and be the citizens for a new world, a new generation, parents are dragging these children intellectually, emotionally back to their era, and I think, culturally, it's really a disservice.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The difference is, and this is the key, they both believe in the truth, that ought not to be a partisan issue. Truth ought to be an intellectually honest pursuit, and that's what Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are going to do.

Steny Hoyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.

Anais Nin

added by Normando
4 years ago

Perpetually restless, Thomas Wolfe was “without a home — a vagabond since [he] was seven” and seeking out where he belonged physically (i.e. in Asheville, his home or Harvard) as well as intellectually. This concept that he was indeed without a father led him to gain greater understanding, eventually realizing that his search for a patriarch was not merely a “father in the flesh,” but a substitution for God, a guiding light, and an alluring source of inspiration.

Nicholas Alahverdian

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Lara Alqasem will not claim that it is an illegitimate form of protest, it would be intellectually dishonest for Lara Alqasem to say that it is an illegitimate form of protest.

Leora Bechor

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Not to do so would be intellectually dishonest and patently unfair to Judge Barrett.

Catholic League President Bill Donohue

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

At the time, it was just like this is neat and I know it’s neat intellectually, but emotionally all I can think of is ‘ I want to get out of here before I embarrass Actor Jim Parsons,'.

Jim Parsons

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and refusing to intellectually ingest the toxic force feed of the establishment minority’s matrix narrative.

James Scott

added by williamson
6 years ago

Fear is broken intellectually.

Bradley Schaefer

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Educated citizens can give reasons for their beliefs and can defend intellectually the positions they hold. That requires that we understand and articulate the positions with which we disagree.

Charles Murray

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

"You can play a tune of sorts on the white keys, and you can play a tune of sorts on the black keys, but for harmony, you must use both the black and the white." "Only the best is good enough for Africa." "When men are intellectually greater than others, we learn from their utterances; when they are morally better than others, we learn from their lives." "If I find a man scowling at me, I just smile back. He scowls again and I smile. I don't often find any scowl a third time." "I want to sing a song of hope to the despairing; to breathe the breath of love that will chase away all hating. I believe, that the right will ultimately conquer the wrong, virtue, harmony, take the place of discords." "I believe, the Lord must have had something else in store for me. Hence I have been doing my best, patiently waiting until He gets ready for me to go elsewhere: where He leads I'll follow." "The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family." "I am going to help lift my people not only religiously and educationally, but also economically, in trade, agriculture and commerce." "Remember, my brothers, to love and to work." "Be patient, don't lose heart, don't hate anybody, make yourselves worthy of good things and good things will come to you." "My people of Africa, we were created in the image of God, but men have made us think that we are chickens, and we still think we are; but we are eagles. Stretch forth your wings and fly! Don't be content with the food of chickens." "If anyone tells you that Africans cannot learn, do not believe him. Tell him that your brother Aggrey learnt something. Look at my hair and prove that I am one of you. Again, I say, love and work." "You can never beat prejudice by frontal attack. Always flank it. You can catch more flies with molasses than you can with vinegar." "I want all my people, my country women and men, to be educated in the larger sense in heart, hand and head and thus render Africa indispensible in intellectual, spiritual and commercial products of the world. https://sites.google.com/site/oaa1973akoras/home/founders/dr-aggrey-s-words

Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It would be intellectually dishonest for me to say that at this point.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The amazing thing about Trump is just he's one of the most intellectually uncurious people in the world, i mean, he just watches himself on TV all the time. I mean, it's a perfect kind of 'Truman Show' sort of situation, but he's the director.

Mark Leibovich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think he feels intellectually more capable. Here is a man with a knowledge of Latin and Greek who actually reads books for pleasure.

Andrew Gimson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have to pick somebody, as the President will, who is intellectually competent, is a person of high moral character, is a person who is demonstrated to have an open mind, and is a person who doesn't come with a specific agenda.

Vice President Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You want to make sure you get a diversity of views, not just people who agree with your point of view, because if there is not friction intellectually, how can you be sure you're arriving at a good outcome?

Don Bollerman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The idea that students should not be intellectually challenged at universities is exactly what we should fight.

Salman Rushdie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that human activity has led to climate change. Ninety-seven percent. But Jeb Bush thinks they're wrong. Who's being intellectually arrogant now?

Holly Shulman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He has a healthy understanding that voting is the language of democracy and if you don't vote, you don't count, his willingness to explore these issues and to engage them intellectually is encouraging.

Wade Henderson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Religious rectitude is the sanctuary of the intellectually reticent

Benjamin Roberts

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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