intellectual gifts

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Thanks to his relentless drive, considerable intellectual gifts, and more than a little luck, he would eventually achieve just that.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

She was a woman of extraordinary intellectual gifts at a time when there was essentially no such thing as a female philosopher, or even a female academic.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2016

But his intellectual gifts did not save him from being put in an institution.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2016

For me, you cannot call yourself an intellectual if all you use your intellectual gifts for is to find excuses not to do anything.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015

But I also think that all the kids in that SP class took away something very special, the notion that each of us had intellectual gifts to spend as we chose.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers