"Society has no bribe for me..." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John le Carre
• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes
• Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe. — Claud Cockburn
• It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them… — Sun Tzu
• Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation… — Ayn Rand
• Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or… — Walter Lippmann
• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My… — Abraham Lincoln
• For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a… — Rajneesh
• For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities… — Rajneesh
• The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and… — Sun Tzu
• Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder
• Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely… — James Madison

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