Quote by Simone Weil
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the c

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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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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I think what hes – what he believes, and he may be correct, I dont know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about whats going on in Iraq that we havent revealed to others. – Lawrence Eagleburger

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. – Aldous Huxley

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When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early 90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didnt want to, because they had no pilots. – Robert M. Gates

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It doesnt matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who cant speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community. – Seymour Hersh

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Everythings coming up roses – for me. – Ethel Merman

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