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"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."
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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."
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."
"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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"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."
"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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