"I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them."

-- Charles Cumming

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“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.”
“The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.”
“I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.”
“Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.”
“Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.”

Source : "Age of Reason". The New Yorker, (p. 103), October 22, 2007.
“If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.”

Source : "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.
“For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.”

Source : Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”
“Take the goods the gods provide thee.”

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