Carolina QuotesAn intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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In Peter J. Mayhew, Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006), p. 24
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