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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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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."

"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."

"He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction."

"So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes."

"Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence."

"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."

"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."

"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."

"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."

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."

"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."

"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."

"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."
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