#intelligence

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#increasing #intelligence #mob #spirit

Intelligence is a moral category. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#intelligence #moral

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. ↗

— Josh Billings

#evidence #greater #nothing #superior #surprised

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. ↗

— Cofer Black

#intelligence #officer

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish. ↗

— Cofer Black

#al #could #deal #depended #developed

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. ↗

— Cofer Black

#collecting #counterterrorism #develop #enable #havens

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#be kind #charm #humor #i #intelligent

The universal character of the centrifugal forces leaves us impotent as to discern whether what is going on inside the carrousel is because we are rotating with respect to terra firma (remember my eyes are closed), or because – for some unknown reason unrelated to motion – radial gravitational field has temporarily emerged while the carrousel is as in repose as it was before the given impulse. The latter would have certainly been the interpretation adopted by an intelligent being, had s/he been born and grown up inside the carrousel, without any access whatsoever to the exterior world. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#science #intelligence

I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#heaven #hell #sameness #intelligence

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#any #aspect #australian #disappoint #discussion