Quote by Susan Sontag
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. - Susan So

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. – Susan Sontag

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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Fantasy
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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People
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Minorities
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Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America. – Chris Cannon

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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. – Gijs de Vries

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Intelligence

I dont deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. – William Hague

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Intelligence

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser. – Richard Shelby

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Intelligence

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