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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
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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?"
"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."
"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."
"For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question."
"You have to be smart to get what you want."
"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
"To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn't it? The one who proceeds with caution will win."
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"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."
"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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