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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. ↗

— Julian Assange

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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? ↗

— Scott Adams

#ask #get #just #kind #people

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ↗

— Alan Alda

#always #better #remember #smart #than

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#administration #clinton #clinton administration #community #counterintelligence

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, and have judgment superior to, the rest of us; that they are more intelligent. Not until Vietnam did I finally realize that some of the most important decisions of all time can be made by men knowing really no more than, and who are not more intelligent than, most of the rest of us. That it was even possible that my own opinions and judgment could be as good as and maybe better than a politician's who made a decision of profound consequence. ↗

— Jack Finney

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