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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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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young,…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
— Sun Tzu
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Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not…
— Sun Tzu
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The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current…
— Carl Ally
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Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
— William Shakespeare
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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure…
— Orison Swett Marden
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
— Euripides
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real…
— Bell Hooks
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Love with eyes knows when to say no, when to say yes. Love neither interferes in anybody`s life nor allows anybody else…
— Rajneesh
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When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I…
— Maya Angelou
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Every football player knows when his time is up.
— Red Grange
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We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may…
— Caryll Houselander
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