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Quote by Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that al

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. – Morris West

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I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. – George Woodcock

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We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups. – Jane Harman

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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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