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"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."

"Harold is clever from Person of Interest."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."

"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."

"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
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"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."

"The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response."

"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."

"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes."

"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."
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