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Though it's dangerous to romanticize mental illness, one can't help thinking that Schumann's unhinged imagination, counterbalanced by a probing musical intellect, led to some of the Romantic era's most original music.

SCO claims that IBM has illegally contributed SCO's intellectual property to Linux and has threatened to sue Linux users over the matter.

If someone says to me the state ought not pick up 55 percent of the public education costs but 40 percent, that would be at least an intellectually honest way to get the lines to merge.

There are creative forces in the United States with whom I feel an intellectual and stylistic kinship, and the purpose of my visit is to establish contact with them.

"You feel a calmness through your body," motorcycle racer Malcolm Smith reports, "even though you know intellectually that you're right on the brink of disaster."His intellectual gifts and his understanding of politics consoled him for his business failures.

All this is so obvious -- the great inventor was an historian, and how else do historians work, but by being the magpies of the intellectual world?Yet, the minute one mentions "sources," a great buzzing occurs, as if a nest of wasps were about to swarm.

Because the Documents Model is fundamentally right-headed -- it asserts the incontrovertible argument that the Hebrew Bible which we now possess is based, at least to some extent, on earlier documents -- it warrants continual employment: some day it may stimulate a big intellectual payoff.

However, the only intellectual constant that I have found in my reading is that through this activity runs a single principle of historical evidence, indeed the only one on which all the scholars would agree: that the report of a given historical event is always after the event.

The event made a profound impression upon Tina, installing in her an irrational and indelible self-image as intellectually inferior.

Why don't we sell Chile and buy something closer to Paris?one of our intellectuals once asked.

0-8014-2996-X Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to RomeBy PATRICK ALLITTCornell University Press INTRODUCTIONIntellectuals Becoming CatholicsFROM THE MID-NINETEENTH century to the mid-twentieth, a succession of English-speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism.

Outspoken, intellectually gifted, and impressed by their own example, Catholic converts said that they would show up the fallacies of Protestants and religious skeptics, end the long schism in Christendom, and place Catholics once more at the center of Western intellectual life.

Some of the names of these convert intellectuals are widely familiar, and among them John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Isaac Hecker, Orestes Brownson, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day have all been the subject of more than one major biography.

But no one has yet written a study of the general impact of converts on Catholic intellectual life in this era or the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create.

Many of their contemporaries regarded the idea of a "Catholic intellectual" as a contradiction in terms, believing that the repressive Roman church prohibited freedom of thought.


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