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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. – Sloan Wilson

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The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. – Sloan Wilson

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. – Jose Bergamin

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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. – Stephen Hawking

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The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense. – Charles Foster Bass

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When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that Im going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. – Scott Ritter

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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley

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