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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."

"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."

"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so."

"It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality."

"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."

"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence."

"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."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists."

"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."

"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."

"Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it."

"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."
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