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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Quotes By Simone Weil
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the...
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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its...
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war except for a...
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it or thinks he does as it is...
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a...
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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
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There is one and only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime...
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems...
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In the intellectual order the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less...
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity even...
Quotes About Intelligence
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I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
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Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign...
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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't...
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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an...
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There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do...
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Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom...
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In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to...
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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very...
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I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.