intellectual
n. A person who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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n. Someone who prefers theory over experience, so much so that they would sit on a hot stove twice.
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Cynical Quotations
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
— Aldous Huxley
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
— John Maynard Keynes
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