When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels."… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
Cordings make the best Covert coats, corduroys, moleskins and all the accoutrements. When I need a covert coat I get it from… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness'… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork. — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a… — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of… — Ali Larter Copy Share Image
The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War,… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“There was nothing strange about it. Jed and i were on a covert mission. We had dinoculars, jungle, a quarry, a threat,… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency,… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
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