Sherman Kent quotes
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“Estimating is what you do when you don't know.”
-- Sherman KentSource : "Estimates and Influence," Foreign Service Journal (April 1969).
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“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”
-- Sherman KentSource : Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”
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Source : Alan A. Altshuler (1961). “The process of planning in two American cities”
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“Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.”
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