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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
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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."

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

"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."

"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."

"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."

"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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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."


"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."


"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."


"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."


"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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