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Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. – Michael Polanyi

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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. – Michael Polanyi

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Faith
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Michael Polanyi
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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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communication
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Michael Polanyi
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Intelligence
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In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. – Paul Harris

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Intelligence

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. – John McCarthy

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Intelligence

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world. – Carl Levin

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Intelligence

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. – William Hedgcock Webster

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Intelligence

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. – Gaston Bachelard

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Dreams

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. Its a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone – it makes you feel alive. – Jenson Button

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fitness

So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wingd the shaft that quiverd in his heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Irony

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. – Don DeLillo

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movies