“Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.”
— William Irwin Thompson
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“Intelligence is nothing without delight.”
— Paul Claudel
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“Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.”
— Barack Obama
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“I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.”
— Cofer Black
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“If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.”
— Paul Graham
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“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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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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“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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“The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.”
— Cofer Black
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“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”
— Emile M. Cioran
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“Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.”
— Huston Smith
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