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"Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning."
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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"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."

"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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"If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology."


"My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over."


"What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?"


"If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet."


"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."


"It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness."


"When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe."


"Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?"


"Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?"
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