intelligence
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘intelligence’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Intelligence is nothing without delight.” -Paul Claudel
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“I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.” -Cristina Kirchner
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“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.” -Carrie Chapman Catt
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“God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.” -James Clavell
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“Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.” -James Hal Cone
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“I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.” -Bernard Liautaud
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“To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.” -David M. Shoup
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“I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.” -James R. Bath
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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.” -Aldrich Ames
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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.” -E. Howard Hunt
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“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.” -Shirley Hazzard
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“Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it’s more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it’s more like social intelligence.” -Matt Walsh
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“Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.” -Wayne White
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“It doesn’t matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can’t speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.” -Seymour Hersh
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“Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don’t, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.” -Vernon A. Walters
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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.” -James Randolph Adams
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“The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.” -John Scarlett
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“Of course I believe in aliens. I think it’s very egocentric to think that there’s nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.” -Lizzie Brochere
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“Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it’s benign… but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.” -Ted Bell
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“The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.” -James Joseph Sylvester
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“I’m fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?” -Charles Cumming
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“Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht’s preparations.” -Leopold Trepper
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“This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.” -Richard M. Helms
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“The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.” -Pete Hoekstra
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“Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.” -Annie Jump Cannon
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“Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.” -John Michael Hayes
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“The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.” -Ken Lucas
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“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.” -Charles Munch
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“It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence – an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered – ‘In the beginning, God.’” -Arthur H. Compton
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“Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.” -Edgar Rice Burroghs
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“Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.” -Randy Forbes
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“I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.” -Richard Shelby
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“The Homeland Security department doesn’t have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can’t direct anything except inside their bureau.” -David Hunt
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“Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.” -Chris Cannon
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“I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?” -Albert Wynn
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“Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can’t make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.” -Jay Rockefeller
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“I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.” -Ted Stevens
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“It is not government’s job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children’s health.” -Michael Crapo
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“The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along.” -Richard Armitage
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“People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.” -Peter Thiel
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“We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science – revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.” -John Fiske
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“As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.” -Kelly Ayotte
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“For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn’t due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.” -Charles F. Bass
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“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.” -Lucien Bouchard
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“For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 ‘is involved’ or not (whatever ‘is involved’ might mean).” -Douglas Hofstadter
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“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.” -John Sterling
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“I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids’ show.” -Nichelle Nichols
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“If you look at the publishers I’ve worked with, generally, they’re a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I’ve worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.” -Peter Sotos
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“The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.” -Cofer Black
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“I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.” -Jeff Sessions
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“I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex – but that did not characterize my service.” -Markus Wolf
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“I’m inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.” -Brad Delson
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“The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.” -Bill Nelson
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“And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.” -Louis Freeh
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“I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.” -Alexander Mackenzie
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“Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.” -David K. Shipler
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“First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.” -Pat Roberts
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“That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.” -Stephen Hadley
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“But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.” -Pierre Laval
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“Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.” -Peter Pace
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“The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.” -Bobby Ray Inman
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“I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.” -Rafik Hariri
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“I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She’s taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.” -Carole King
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“I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.” -Tony Goldwyn
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“When I came to the CIA in the mid-’90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central…
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“Lincoln’s stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition – in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.” -John George Nicolay
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“The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.” -Gloria Naylor
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“The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.” -John Pistole
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“We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.” -Jane Harman
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“I can’t be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.” -Linda Hunt
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“The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.” -Chauncey Wright
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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.” -Godfried Danneels
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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?” -Peter Schuyler
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“Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.” -Clifford D. Simak
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.” -Charles Evans Hughes
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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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“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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“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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“Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.” -Jeff Hawkins
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“Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.” -Charles Williams
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“In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator’s separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.” -Oliver Joseph Lodge
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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.” -Lawrence Hargrave
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“Well, it’s a – I don’t want to disappoint you, but it’s a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.” -Alexander Downer
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“Rehearsals and this band are two words that don’t really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.” -Jerry Cantrell
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“The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn’t really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn’t happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.” -Tyrese Gibson
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.” -Ida B. Wells
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.” -William Hedgcock Webster
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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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“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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“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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“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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“The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.” -Brendan Coyle
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you’re stuck.” -Jim Parsons
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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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“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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“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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“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.” -Remy de Gourmont
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“Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.” -Jim Sensenbrenner
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“We’ve done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.” -Michael Chertoff
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“There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.” -Lactantius
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“You mustn’t underestimate an audience’s intelligence.” -Marvin Hamlisch
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“Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.” -Robert Sternberg
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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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“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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“People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.” -Andrew Eldritch
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I’ve always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.” -Kristin Hersh
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“Someday we’ll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’ But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.” -Frank Rich
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“If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.” -Morris West
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“We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.” -Zbigniew Brzezinski
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“The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.” -John Bruton
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“The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.” -Charles Foster Bass
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“I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.” -George J. Mitchell
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“I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.” -George Woodcock
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“Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don’t care where it is, when they look at me it’s not about my intelligence. It’s who can I beat up.” -Danny Aiello
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“Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?” -Lynn Margulis
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“How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?” -Curt Weldon
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“I’m much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.” -Michael Scheuer
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“The ‘Robben Island Bible’ has arrived at the British Museum. It’s a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.” -Daniel Hannan
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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.” -Douglas Feith
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“Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, ‘Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we’re doing it.’” -Brad Thor
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“I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.” -David Kay
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“But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It’s about character, it’s about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don’t see.” -Ron Silver
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“When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early ’90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn’t want to, because they had no pilots.” -Robert M. Gates
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“The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.” -Adam Schiff
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“The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.” -Jon Porter
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“I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.” -John Frankenheimer
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“People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.” -Robyn Hitchcock
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“I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I’m lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.” -Joan Cusack
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“This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody’s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.” -Bob Graham
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“In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.” -Pat Brown
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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.” -Chris Chocola
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“The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.” -Ray Kurzweil
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“There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.” -Fay Wray
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“As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.” -John O. Brennan
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“As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.” -Susan Rice
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“You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.” -Gijs de Vries
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“Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.” -Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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“Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don’t think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn’t struck by that.” -Victoria Principal
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“When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I’m going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.” -Scott Ritter
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“The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation’s ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.” -Michael K. Simpson
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“We can’t gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we’ve already done that – with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.” -Peter King
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“Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.” -Tony Gilroy
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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?” -Andrew Greeley
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“I absolutely don’t think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.” -Daniel H. Wilson
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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.” -George William Curtis
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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.” -Paul Harris
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