Quote by Holbrook Jackson
Genius is initiative on fire. - Holbrook Jackson

Genius is initiative on fire. – Holbrook Jackson

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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson

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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and thats why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center. – Jim Ramstad

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Im not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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