Intelligence Quotes
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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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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Carl von Clausewitz
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara Walters
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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 think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
Henry Paulson
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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
Pythagoras
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw
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Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
Lucille Clifton
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
Alfred Jarry
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Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
Jack Keane
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
Naveen Jain
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After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
Roger Taylor
Queen
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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
Nikola Tesla
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If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.
Clara Barton
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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi
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Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably fall in love.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
Charles William Eliot
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
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Although when you look at people that say, from the same culture, roughly the same age, and not very difference intelligence, and you make a lot of detailed questions about the experiences of say colors, situations, and so on, you'll get very similar answers.
Antonio Damasio
