Benjamin Wittes Quotes
Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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We are awaiting the police assessment of the video.
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The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
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All criticism is a form of autobiography.
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The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
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Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.
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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.
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Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.
