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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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"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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"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." »Winston Churchill
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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
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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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"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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"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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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office." »Mae West
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"There are no office hours for leaders." »Cardinal James Gibbons
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." »John F. Kennedy
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants." »Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
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"Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God." »Saint Thomas More, upon being executed
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly." »Frederick William Robertson
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"Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better." »Harry S Truman
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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire
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"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." »John Adams
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"Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." »David Broder
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"Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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