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  • Maurice Saatchi on hope

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    “Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.” -Maurice Saatchi

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  • Norman McLaren on hope

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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.” -Norman McLaren

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  • Michael Polanyi on hope

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    “Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.” -Michael Polanyi

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  • Joel Kinnaman on hope

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    “There’s a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, ‘Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?’, and they’re finding out that, no, it’s not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we’re much more of an organic creature in that way.” -Joel Kinnaman

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  • William Irwin Thompson on hope

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    “Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.” -William Irwin Thompson

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  • Catharine Beecher on hope

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    “As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.” -Catharine Beecher

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  • Jeffrey Jones on hope

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    “I’ve gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.” -Jeffrey Jones

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  • Tanith Lee on hope

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    “If they had said my writing wasn’t good enough, fair enough, that’s an opinion. But to say it’s too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.” -Tanith Lee

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  • Jim Parsons on hope

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    “I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you’re stuck.” -Jim Parsons

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  • Stephen Cambone on hope

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    “But by providing the background picture – the universal situational awareness that we desire – by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.” -Stephen Cambone

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  • Mike Leigh on hope

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    “My work requires acting at its most committed – it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn’t work for narcissistic or selfish actors.” -Mike Leigh

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  • John Sherman Cooper on hope

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    “The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.” -John Sherman Cooper

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  • Samuel Morse on hope

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    “If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.” -Samuel Morse

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  • Clare Short on hope

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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.” -Clare Short

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  • Leonard Boswell on hope

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    “The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.” -Leonard Boswell

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  • Frank Carlucci on hope

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    “And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they’ve received.” -Frank Carlucci

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  • Brendan Coyle on hope

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    “The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.” -Brendan Coyle

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  • Carl Levin on hope

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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.” -Carl Levin

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  • Paul Graham on hope

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    “If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.” -Paul Graham

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  • Vernor Vinge on hope

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    “I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.” -Vernor Vinge

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  • Oded Fehr on hope

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    “I did my military service from 1989 – 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.” -Oded Fehr

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  • Marya Mannes on hope

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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.” -Marya Mannes

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  • Andrew Eldritch on hope

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    “People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.” -Andrew Eldritch

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  • Howard Gardner on hope

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    “I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.” -Howard Gardner

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  • Janis Karpinski on hope

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    “Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam – whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.” -Janis Karpinski

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