#intelligence

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. ↗

— William Hague

#deny #highest #highest standards #i #intelligence

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ↗

— William Feather

#found #happiness #indictments #intelligence #person

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#behind #both #cut #i #i think

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

#comedy #create #giggle #i #inside

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ↗

— Barbara Walters

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The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. ↗

— William Hedgcock Webster

#attentive #conscious #intelligence #more #people

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#allowed #could #freeh #intelligence #louis

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. ↗

— Rebecca West

#camel #great #great art #intelligence #logical