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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
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"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
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"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."
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"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence."
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"They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."
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"In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise."
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"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture."
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"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"
Earth

"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."
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"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
Birthday

"There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre."
Life

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
War

"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
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"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
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