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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."

"Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?"

"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."

"Your insight is your asset the edge you require to succeed."

"Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq."

"The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue."

"It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience."

"Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life."

"Intelligence is not information. Intelligence is imagination and creativity."

"For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question."
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
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