"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."

-- Aldrich Ames

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“Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period when Observation, Induction, and Deduction were first employed, its birth must be referred to that comparatively recent period when the mind, rejecting the primitive tendency to seek in supernatural agencies for an explanation of all external phenomena, endeavoured, by a systematic investigation of the phenomena themselves to discover their invariable order and connection.”
“I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.”
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”

Source : Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45
“This does not mean, of course, that we must think of waiting for the age of universal harmony.”
“A great brand starts with a hero product.”
“Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work”
“To me personally, it's nothing personal to me”
“My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.”

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