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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can not even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it is not as predictable, when you do not know what's coming at you.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

I am a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

They say military have the so-called secret intelligence - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I have never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

I think there is a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you do not have to think about it.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I did not have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it is good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.