The intellectual class pontificates their theories playing with pretend money impervious to the disruptions they unleash.

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America is perfectly set up for extroverts, which is one reason the introverted intellectual class feels alienated and grouchy.

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The Russian-born billionaire, who emigrated to Israel in 1972 at the age of 20 but has spent most of his adult life in Europe, has a sordid reputation among the country's intellectual class (he has faced investigations for money-laundering both in Israel and in France, which tried unsuccessfully to extradite him).

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The prizes also brought foreign writers and scientists into the country, benefitting Swedish education and placing the country in an international class of intellectual elites.

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As King followed a path of non-violent direct action he transformed himself from a bourgeois intellectual into the King we remember today, a man who reached across class and color lines to call America to justice.

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The oil-flush kingdom has rapidly asserted itself as a world-class intellectual mecca, courting top universities and financial institutions and muscling its way into cultural relevancy.

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No surprise then that the virtue of generosity or benevolence, though it has pride of place in the work of Aristotle--the only philosopher to whom Rand acknowledges any intellectual debt-- occupies a second-class status in her own work.

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He has formidable intellectual powers: possessor of a first-class degree, ex-president of the Oxford Union, and an ex-consultant with McKinsey.

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