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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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There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they…
— Mortimer Adler
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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got…
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They usually show movies on a flight like that.
— Ken Coleman
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When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.
— James Coco
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Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
— Unknown Author
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When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to…
— Ian Tattersall
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really…
— Dean Koontz
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Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and…
— Anne Sweeney
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Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually…
— Dean Ornish
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I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually…
— Eliza Dushku
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests
— Max von Sydow
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