Word: thinker
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...fight you ever saw." Said he: "I am fighting for my natural right to earn a living. ... I claim that the character and his name are virtually chemical to myself and that no one should interfere with my right to use them. It is an outrage that I, the thinker, the creator, should be the victim of a legal technicality...
...Judge Cardozo is a man of scholarly ability as well as experience in public affairs his books on jurisprudence have made him well known to students of government his services as chief justice of the New York State Court of Appeals have marked him as a liberal and original thinker...
...from Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells and Anatole France: put them all together and they spell HUXLEY. Author Huxley points out that his brave new world is strikingly similar to a world simultaneously envisioned by a slightly soberer scientist, Bertrand Russell. Delighted when critics discovered that he was a Thinker, he is still unwilling to give up tomfoolery. In Brave New World he mixes it so well with sober, cynical conclusions that it is hard to tell where one stops and the other begins...
Famed though Mr. Justice Holmes is for the liberalism of his judicial thought, for his vigorous dissents from majority opinions, for his literary grace and phrasemaking, it is likely that he will be remembered longest as a great abstract thinker, a philosopher who practiced his profession under the guise of the law. Years ago he gave Harvard students his high intellectual creed in these words...
...Thinker Smith it seemed clear that any obstruction to imports reduced the total number of exports and was therefore against the interests of all nations, since in every transaction both buyer and seller profit. To increase the number of transactions and therefore the number of benefits to all, he prescribed Free Trade. But suspicious Mother Britain would scarcely have swallowed this pill- except for her geography...