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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."

"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."

"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces."

"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

"I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."

"You want to keep intelligence separate from policy."

"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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