"As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise."

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Source : Director of Central Intelligence Remarks on Iraq's WMD Programs, www.cia.gov. February 5, 2004.

George Tenet

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“Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.”
“Life's not all beer and skittles”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.131, Radclyffe Hall
“Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.”
“Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.”
“Simply put, music can heal people.”
“If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.”
“Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.”
“I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.”

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