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Intelligence Quotes
"It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible."
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"There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make."
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"The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence."
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"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older."
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"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."
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"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
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"It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside."
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"I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others."
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"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."
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"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
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"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
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"The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason."
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"Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence."
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"You want to keep intelligence separate from policy."
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"In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship."
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"I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun? says Christina."Yes, says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you?"
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"She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence."
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"If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet."
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"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
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"So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence."
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"To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance."
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"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
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"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American."
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"I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest."
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"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."
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"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."
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"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use."
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"Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention."
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"People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel."
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"Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind."
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"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
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"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
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"Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national."
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"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."
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"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
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"Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time."
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"I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress."
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"If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
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"No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged."
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"So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants."
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"Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America."
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"Intellectual capacity is the key to solving any complex problem."
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"Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world."
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"Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey."
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"Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult."
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"Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody."
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"I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal."
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