"How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?"
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"How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?"
"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
"Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling."
"The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success."
"Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible."
"It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation."
"Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree."
"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth."
"The reality is that you think you're going to have all this time out here, to do all this stuff, and the truth of the matter is, you just don't. If we're on the road, and we stay in the city we're in, I'm going to try to get up in the morning and get a workout in."
"The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no."
"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."
"In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment."
"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."
"I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus."
"I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite."
"The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
"There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth."
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
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