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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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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these…
— Kenneth Tynan
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When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So…
— Mary Alice
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I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
— Arlen Specter
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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
— John le Carre
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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have…
— Anais Nin
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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot…
— Mark Twain
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The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are…
— Bertrand Russell
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Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
— Unknown Author
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
— Unknown Author
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The angels glorify; men scrutinize: angels raise their voices in praise; men in disputation: they conceal their faces with their wings; but…
— John Chrysostom
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