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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin

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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. – John Calvin

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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. – John Calvin

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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. – John Calvin

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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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In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. – Hillary Clinton

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Intelligence

Millions of dollars worth of advertising shows such little respect for the readers intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. – James Randolph Adams

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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. – George Tenet

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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. – George Burns

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As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing…. Just drink it black, the way God does. – Clay Thompson, “I put egg shells in my coffee,” The Arizona Republic

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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. – Thomas Carlyle

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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. – Flannery OConnor

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