"I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people."

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Source : "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

Robert Baer

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Information Quotes

“I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?”
“Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.”
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.30, Random House
“I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.”
“Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.”
“...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.”
“To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”
“Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.”

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