| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Adversary Intelligence Systems | The most adversarial adversary intelligence system is always one's own.
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| Agent-in-place | Agent-in-place? Your place or mine?
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| Analysis | Secret 205. One intelligence analyst's Analytic Outreach is another's nonconsensual groping.
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| Ascending Spiral | Everybody line up and form an ascending spiral.
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| Aught | We ought not let aught be for naught.
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| Beer | The United States contains 5% of the world's population, yet uses 24% of the world's energy. On the other hand, the US produces 20% of the world's beer, but consumes only 12.8%. So it's not like the US isn't sharing.
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| Being Me | Nobody knows how it feels to be me, except it.
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| Big Picture | Everybody wants to see the big picture. Nobody wants to smell the big scratch-and-sniff.
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| Censorship | Redact, or be redacted.
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| CIA | Underhead reconnaissance is the greater INT by far.
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| Common Ground | When you reach common ground, check to make sure you're not sinking.
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| Computers | The difference between friends and computers: friends ask first if they can hang and crash.
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| Cultural Appropriation | I'd criticize cultural appropriation, but that would require my appropriating a culture of criticism.
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| Data Mining | The analytical challenges of data mining are manageable, provided proper safety equipment is worn.
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| Details | William Feather said 'Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details,' though he didn't offer specifics.
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| Ethics | I am partial to no vested interests. Give me lingeried interests every time.
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| Fleetingness | Fleetingness is here to stay.
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| Food | Our relationship with food in large part defines us – or at least it defines our large parts.
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| Gender Fluidity | According to science, gender fluidity, if it's hot enough, can transform into a gender gas!
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| God | If God plays dice with the universe, who's the house?
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| Hard Targets | The hardness is the target.
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| History | It must have been fun being the first humans, setting all those new world records every day.
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| Indecision | Decisiveness may be flexible – indecision, never.
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| Intelligence Tests | An intelligence test measures one's ability to get out of having to take it.
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| Internet | Just kidding – actually I *am* a robot.
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| It's All Good | It's all good, where 'it' ∈ {N | N = nonlethal}.
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| KISS Principle | Whoever put the second S in the KISS principle added 33% needless complexity.
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| Law of Scary Laws | The Law of Scary Laws: For any behavior, policy or belief X, one's personal disapproval of X can be expressed as a scary law of the form: 'Those who fail to stand up to X will sooner or later find themselves at X's feet.'
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| Lying | It can't be *pathological* lying if it preserves your health.
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| Maskirovka | Secret 0.831. Any Russian definition of maskirovka is an instance of it.
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| Morality | Upon our nation's moral fiber depends our nation's moral regularity.
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| Motivational | It takes less time to kill all the people who say 'It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong' than to explain why you only wounded some of them.
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| National Security | National security threat (n.) National security.
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| Nature | I practice a back-to-nature lifestyle. The farther behind my back nature is, the better.
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| Occupy Wall Street | The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already.
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| Opportunity | Don't say 'problem,' say 'opportunity' – it's way scarier.
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| Over the Top | Better over the top than under the bottom.
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| Policymakers | A policymaker is a National Intelligence Estimate's way of making another National Intelligence Estimate.
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| Power | I googled the quote 'Power means not having to respond.' Nothing happened.
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| Quotations | If an anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances, the most illuminating will tend to be of the Mütter variety.
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| Reading | I never move my lips when I'm reading. But sometimes what I'm reading moves my lips.
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| Safe House | What good is a safe house if the sidewalk's dangerous?
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| Secret Service | The Papal Swiss Guard is like the US Secret Service, only more conservatively dressed.
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| Security Clearances | Jesus doesn't have security clearances. Jesus *is* security clearances.
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| Seeing | Seeing is be leaving.
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| Soul | We insist our soul is not for sale – as if the owner would tell us.
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| Spooksplain | Spooksplain v. To explain a classified topic to someone, and having told them, to be required to kill them.
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| Stop Me If You | Actually, I haven't heard this one before, but I think I'll go ahead and stop you anyway.
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| Strategy | Secret 29918191. Divide and conquer. Unite and divide.
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| Surveillance | The more everyone knows about what everyone is doing, the more what everyone is doing is about knowing this.
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| Surveillance | I disagree with what you think, but as long as you don't disable your remote neural oscillation monitoring port, I shall defend to the death your right to think it.
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| Surviving | Everything is survivable, except survival.
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| Terrorism | A definition of terrorism presupposes the terrorism of definition.
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| Troubleshooting | Troubleshooting n. The practice of injecting trouble intravenously, typically performed by trouble addicts.
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| Trust | Trust me, I know what I'm officially not doing.
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| Virtual Reality | Good virtual reality makes you forget you're virtually real.
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| Wrong Side of the Tracks | The wrong side of the tracks is on top of them.
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| You Go Your Way | You go your way, and I'll go thine.
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