There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
Winning is a serious matter.
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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