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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 measure of love is love without measure.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without…
— Richard Rolle
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Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart…
— Gautama Buddha
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Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you…
— Frida Kahlo
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Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness…
— James Vila Blake
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All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.
— Hans Arp
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When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and…
— Khalil Gibran
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If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and…
— Cormac McCarthy
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