Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be... ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t... ALEXANDER HAMILTON I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w... EBEN ALEXANDER I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. EBEN ALEXANDER I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ... EBEN ALEXANDER As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. EBEN ALEXANDER There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio... EBEN ALEXANDER Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o... EBEN ALEXANDER The honor of a nation is its life. ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th... ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h... ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec... ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho... ALEXANDER PAYNE Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ... ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat... ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin... ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ... ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo... ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di... JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp... ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit... ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil... ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so... ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction. ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know? ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT