"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him."

-- Sun Tzu

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“Youve just got to go with what you have in your pants.”
“[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.”
“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.”
“President Bush, yes, spent money like a drunken sailor, and left the nation with a record $400-billion deficit. President Obama, however, is spending far more money than Bush, with a record $1.8 trillion deficit projected for his first year.”
“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”
“Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.”
“People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.”
“Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.”

Source : "Q&A: Hugh Dancy Sits Down with Hannibal". www.esquire.com. April 4, 2013.

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