“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”
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“Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.”
“I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.”
“Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.”
“Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.”
“It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.”
“Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.”
“The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.”
“Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.”
“The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.”
“I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?”
“Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.”
“Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.”
“This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.”
“The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.”
“Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.”
“Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
“The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.”
“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.”
“It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'”
“Intelligence is nothing without delight.”
“I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.”
“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.”
“God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.”