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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,…
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public…
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's…
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in…
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how…
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we…
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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
— Andre Gide
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Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.
— Clarence H. Burns
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Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
— Orville Dewey
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If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
— Raymond Aubrac
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When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very…
— Aristide Maillol
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
— Tertullian
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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing,…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.
— Tim Bowler
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...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...
— John le Carre
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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Something is everything for nothing and now everyone is ready to do anything to achieve nothing.
— Vikrant Parsai
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