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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. – Simone Weil

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But by providing the background picture – the universal situational awareness that we desire – by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence. – Stephen Cambone

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

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