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Intelligence Quotes
"The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
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"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"
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"It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up."
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"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
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"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
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"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so."
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"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."
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"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."
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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
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"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."
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"The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie."
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"In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq."
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
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"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
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"A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence."
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"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."
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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
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"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
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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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"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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"Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations."
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"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?"
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"People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic."
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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
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"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."
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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
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"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."
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"Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?"
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"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
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"The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world."
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"Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."
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"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he."
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"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."
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"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world."
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