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An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
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Richard Reeves And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense. Shia LaBeouf As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. Carter G. Woodson But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. Philip Gibbs Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. Kurt Student I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. Gustave Flaubert I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. Shia LaBeouf I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. Paul M. Glaser In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Salvador Dali Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. Golda Meir People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. Vivien Leigh Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap. Gil Gerard Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness. Harry F. Banks Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. Jacques Barzun The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. Lewis Mumford There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. Jim Davis This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. Michael Medved While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. Ray Kroc |
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