Paul Claudel Quotes
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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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.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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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.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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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.
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
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A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.
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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.
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Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
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I couldn't handle prosperity... I went back to where I belonged.
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
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I hate it when people pilfer my things.
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
