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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. – Morris West

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George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. – Rush Limbaugh

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