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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." »Ambrose Bierce
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"The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you." »Millicent Carey McIntosh
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"I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive office Building)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends." »Everett Dirksen, Answering a question about a controversial senate bill. Quoted on a political talk show on WBEZ FM in Chicago.
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"Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns." »Joseph Weizenbaum
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"Communications without intelligence is noise;
intelligence without communications is irrelevant." »Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
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"The “stream” we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you." »Ruben Studdard
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"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after." »William Shakespeare
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"intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam
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"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." »John Locke
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." »John Buchan
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"Be good to people in your way up, so if you ever fall you will need their support on your way down." »The Omani Shed
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"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa
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"Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." »Michael Sinz
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." »Thomas Jefferson
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"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." »Madame Swetchine
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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination." »Andrew Lang
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"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it." »John Updike
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