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“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.”

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Dennis C. Blair

Limited information is available about Dennis C. Blair, who was born on February 4, 1947, and is of an unknown profession. more

“I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.”

Men Should Understanding Mathematics Mad Math Mathematical Mathematical Logic

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“The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.”

Mind Humans Understanding Mere Faculty Human Mind Indispensable

Book:De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851

Source: De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851

“I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.”

Ifs I Can Understanding Prayer Deals Effort Written Bears Understood Prose Rhyme Splendid Reap

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.”

Mind Persons Ideas Philosophy Whole Use Happens Lasts Understanding Term Effort Greater Special Ignorance Expression Peculiar Fads Hegel Follow Through Simpletons

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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