"I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go."

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James R. Clapper

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“Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.”
“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”
“I have to constantly tell my personnel staff, 'Hey guys, we're still a good staff even though we're allowing good players to go play for other people,'”
“I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)
“Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.”
“On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.”
“We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.”
“Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.”

Source : George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.142, Penguin UK

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