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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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“I don’t know how to depict intelligence.” -David Fincher
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“I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.” -Paul Cellucci
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“I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.” -Steven Moffat
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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.” -Keith Henson
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“There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.” -Yuri Milner
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“The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.” -George Bancroft
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“I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.” -Jim Ramstad
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“Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.” -Blanche Lincoln
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“The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.” -Michael Mandelbaum
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“I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man’s intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.” -Morarji Desai
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“I’ve always felt, in all my books, that there’s a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.” -Studs Terkel
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“Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn’t the best litmus test.” -Ingrid Newkirk
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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.” -Henri Bergson
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“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.” -Sean Parker
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“Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don’t, how you’ll handle a situation – whether you’ve got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.” -John Key
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“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.” -Joseph Pulitzer
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“I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what – just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.” -Vicente Fox
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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.” -Chris Tucker
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“Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.” -Caleb Cushing
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“And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.” -Karlheinz Stockhausen
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“I couldn’t help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn’t one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.” -Julian Castro
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“The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We’re turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.” -Warren Christopher
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“Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I’ve ever seen in my time in Congress or before.” -Mike Rogers
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“Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.” -Doc Hastings
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“I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things – but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.” -Michelle Pfeiffer
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“The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.” -Lindsey Graham
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“I think that animals aren’t less intelligent than humans, they’re just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million – they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.” -Mike Mills
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“Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.” -Jacques Maritain
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“In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.” -Robert Mueller
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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.” -Herbert Read
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“I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.” -Jim Lehrer
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“An organization’s intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.” -Kevin Kelly
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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.” -Elizabeth Hurley
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“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.” -Emanuel Swedenborg
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“You’ll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time – it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.” -Lee H. Hamilton
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“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” -Mark Kennedy
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“Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.” -Ben Kingsley
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“Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.” -Tim Robbins
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“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.” -Ian Mcewan
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“Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.” -Daniel Goleman
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“You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.” -Leon Panetta
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“It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual’s intelligence or morality.” -Christian Lous Lange
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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.” -Ethel Waters
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“Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.” -John Major
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“The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.” -David Letterman
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“God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.” -Raymond Holliwell
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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.” -Lawrence Eagleburger
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“In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.” -James Marsters
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“The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.” -John Jay Hooker
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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.” -Sri Aurobindo
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“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.” -Jean Anouilh
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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.” -Freeman Dyson
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“I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.” -Nicole Appleton
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“The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James’s Park Tube station in London.” -John le Carre
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“Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.” -Raymond Chandler
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“If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.” -Will Cuppy
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“I want to exude strength and intelligence.” -Portia de Rossi
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“I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it’s not as predictable, when you don’t know what’s coming at you.” -Mehmet Oz
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“They say military have the so-called ‘secret intelligence’ – this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I’ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.” -Ozzy Osbourne
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“It was my mother’s idea. Her feeling was that I didn’t have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.” -Vidal Sassoon
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“If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.” -Hulagu Khan
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“We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.” -Condoleezza Rice
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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.” -Thierry Henry
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“But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.” -Joan D. Vinge
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“The ability to take pleasure in one’s life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.”…
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“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.” -Jose Bergamin
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“If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.” -King Abdullah II
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“It’s not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We’ve gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it’s a – very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so…
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“Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.” -Thomas Moore
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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.” -Harold Pinter
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“I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.” -Roberto Cavalli
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“One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.” -Lewis Mumford
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“If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn’t have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.” -Nicolas Cage
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“We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.” -John Sununu
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“Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.” -John Ciardi
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“A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.” -George Saunders
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“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.” -Russell Lynes
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“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.” -Titus Livius
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“I now bid farewell to the country of my birth – of my passions – of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies – whose factions I sought to quell – whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim – whose freedom has been my fatal dream.” -Thomas Francis Meagher
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“If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.” -Arlen Specter
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“Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone’s commitment and intelligence.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.” -Grover Cleveland
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“I’m a big advocate of financial intelligence.” -Daymond John
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“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.” -Quentin Crisp
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“I don’t deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.” -William Hague
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“I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.” -Sophia Bush
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“We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it’s a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.” -Betty Dodson
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“Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.” -Theodore White
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“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.” -James Lovelock
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“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.” -Holly Near
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“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” -Stephen Leacock
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“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.” -Andrea Dworkin
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“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.” -Phaedrus
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“Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.” -John Podhoretz
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“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.” -Jose Mourinho
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“Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.” -Alistair Cooke
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“That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.” -Miguel de Unamuno
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“All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.” -Willa Cather
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“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.” -Karl Von Clausewitz
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“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce
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“Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.” -Larry Ellison
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“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.” -William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.” -E. Stanley Jones
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“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.” -Konrad Adenauer
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“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.” -Linus Torvalds
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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?’” -Bill Maher
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“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” -Alan Kay
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“Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.” -Julian Assange
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“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.” -Alan Perlis
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“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.” -Christopher Columbus
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“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.” -Samuel Beckett
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“Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.” -Claude Chabrol
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“Intelligence is enormously sexy.” -Frank Langella
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“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.” -Edward de Bono
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“For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.” -John Steinbeck
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“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” -Thomas Szasz
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“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom’s not, and I’m not. But I believe in God, and that there’s a higher power and an intelligence that’s bigger than us and that we can rely on. It’s not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.” -Ellen…
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“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.” -William Feather
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“George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.” -Auguste Rodin
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“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.” -Andrew Jackson
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“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.” -Karl A. Menninger
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“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.” -Virginia Woolf
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“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.” -James Russell Lowell
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“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“The universe is an intelligence test.” -Timothy Leary
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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.” -Rose Kennedy
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“I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.” -David Bowie
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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.” -Joseph Story
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“Intelligence is a moral category.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.” -Victor Hugo
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.” -Hillary Clinton
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“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.” -Sloan Wilson
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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.” -Andre Maurois
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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” -Saul Bellow
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“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.” -Honore de Balzac
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“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.” -Groucho Marx
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“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.” -Sun Tzu
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“I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” -John Keats
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“I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense I call it intelligence.” -Malcolm X
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“My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.” -Michelle Obama
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“We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.” -Mitt Romney
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“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill
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“Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend…
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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
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“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” -Michael Jordan
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“Don’t leave home without your sword – your intellect.” -Alan Moore
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“When I see a dolphin, I know it’s just as smart as I am.” -Don Van Vliet
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“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.” -Margaret Anderson
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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.” -Wayne Dyer
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“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.” -Alexander Pope
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“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” -Don Herold
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“A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.” -Charles Kettering
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“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.” -Tom Robbins
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“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” -Lewis Carroll
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“You have to be smart. The easy days are over.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.” -Ernest Newman
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“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.” -Diogenes
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“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” -Susan Sontag
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“I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” -James Whistler
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“People are smarter than you might think.” -John Astin
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