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"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
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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."

"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."
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"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."


"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."


"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."


"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love."


"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."


"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
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