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  • Giorgio Vasari on hope

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    “Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.” -Giorgio Vasari

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  • David Blunkett on hope

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    “Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we’ve faced a similar heightened threat level. And we’ve been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that’s the crucial element.” -David Blunkett

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  • January Jones on hope

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    “I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in ‘American Wedding’. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.” -January Jones

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  • Charles Evans Hughes on hope

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    “Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.” -Charles Evans Hughes

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  • Richard Ben-Veniste on hope

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    “Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn’t find them.” -Richard Ben-Veniste

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  • Pratibha Patil on hope

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    “Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.” -Pratibha Patil

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  • William Least Heat-Moon on hope

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    “The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.” -William Least Heat-Moon

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  • Erin Gray on hope

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    “We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?” -Erin Gray

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  • Paul Bremer on hope

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    “If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general in particular in the field of human intelligence.” -Paul Bremer

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  • Ron Jaworski on hope

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    “The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.” -Ron Jaworski

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  • Clifford D. Simak on hope

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    “Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.” -Clifford D. Simak

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  • George H. Mead on hope

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    “The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.” -George H. Mead

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  • Roger Wicker on hope

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    “Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.” -Roger Wicker

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  • Saxby Chambliss on hope

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    “The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.” -Saxby Chambliss

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  • Eriq La Salle on hope

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    “So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don’t respect their intelligence.” -Eriq La Salle

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  • Barry Zito on hope

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    “I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.” -Barry Zito

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  • William Hedgcock Webster on hope

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    “The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.” -William Hedgcock Webster

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  • Frederica Montseny on hope

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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.” -Frederica Montseny

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  • Martin McGuinness on hope

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    “The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.” -Martin McGuinness

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  • Gary Gygax on hope

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    “When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of ‘being there,’ any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.” -Gary Gygax

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  • Marsha Blackburn on hope

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    “Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.” -Marsha Blackburn

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  • Prince Andrew on hope

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    “The Queen’s intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone’s in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don’t know how she does it. And she sees everything.” -Prince Andrew

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  • Ferdinand Mount on hope

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    “According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.” -Ferdinand Mount

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  • Ida B. Wells on hope

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    “The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.” -Ida B. Wells

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  • John Mica on hope

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    “We’re not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.” -John Mica

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