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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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The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Common sense is not so common. ↗

— Voltaire

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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

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Kindness is the supreme intelligence. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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