Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independenc

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. – G. K. Chesterton

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Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information. – Jim Sensenbrenner

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The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish. – Cofer Black

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The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. – Pete Hoekstra

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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. – Hans Frank

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