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"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
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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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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
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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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"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
Alcohol
"She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end."
Apathy
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
Intelligence
"I have lived so long within the circle of this book [Tender Is The Night] and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real world does not exist but that only these characters exist, and, however pretentious that remark sounds....it is an absolute fact---so much so that their glees and woes are just exactly as important to me as what happens in life."
Reality
"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
Experience
"One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
Hope
"Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery."
Social
"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
Risk
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
Opinion
"It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood."
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