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"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."

"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."

"He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction."

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."

"So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes."

"Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence."

"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."

"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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"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 an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."

"I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together."

"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."
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