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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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Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow…
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Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
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I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may…
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I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very…
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Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware…
— Confucius
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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the…
— Digger Phelps
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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
— John le Carre
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
— Bryant H. McGill
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When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
— Steven Wright
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