Michael Chertoff Quotes
We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
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If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.
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God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.
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We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
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We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.
