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Sounding this theme repeatedly, Carter emphasized in his preaching that cold, detached intellect does not meet the standard of King's humanistic visions...
...true for others on the mainstream's margins, being born biracial is an invitation to view the world from the wondrous, troubling perspective of insider/outsider. Walker, now 31, employed her obvious intellect and political convictions several years ago in co-founding Third Wave, an activist organization for women ages 15 to 30, but in this book she seems too enmeshed in the raw emotions of her early years to take advantage of her birthright...
...people have accomplished anything great after 30--not Einstein, not Newton, not Linda Lovelace. Now I know it's true. At the age of 29, I have tabled all ambitions to write a novel, play or episode of JAG. Even my planned autobiography, A Mildly Amusing Work of Limited Intellect, has been set aside...
...followers of the genome saga know, Venter's restless intellect and his tendency to buck authority were evident from the start. After barely graduating from high school in the 1960s, for example, he headed not for college but for the surfing beaches of Southern California. That made him a prime target for the draft, and the Navy sent him to Vietnam as a medical corpsman--an experience that taught him indelible lessons about the fragility of human life and the colossal ineptitude of big bureaucracies. Says Venter: "If you suffered fools, you died. I dealt with thousands of people dying...
...self-confidence that comes from simply gaining admittance to the most prestigious university in the world. It is generally acknowledged that differences in success at college (whether in terms of GPA or otherwise) are based more on disparities in work ethic and motivation than in our abilities or intellect...