Re: brain study: liberals think differently than conservatives

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

> speaking of which, who was it who defined an intellectual as someone
> who could maintain two contradictory ideas in his/her head at the same
> time?

<http://www.enotes.com/famous-quotes/the-test-of-a-first-rate- 
intelligence-is-the>

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two  
opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the  
ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Attribution: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. first  
published in Esquire (New York, Feb. 1936). The Crack-Up, The Crack- 
Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).