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Quote by George Santayana
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. - George S

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. – George Santayana

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. – George Santayana

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana

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The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. – Adam Schiff

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The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. – Simone Weil

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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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Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam – whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost. – Janis Karpinski

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