"Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information your own scouts provided that mattered, not reports from unknown people whose veracity you couldn't prove."

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Source : David Weber (2014). “Safehold Boxed Set 1: Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, and By Heresies Distressed”, p.709, Tor Science Fiction

David Weber

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #People Quotes

“Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.”
“You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.”

Source : Lady Gaga‏ @ladygaga, twitter.com. June 16, 2011.
“Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.”
“Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.”

Source : György Konrád (1995). “The Melancholy of Rebirth: Essays from Post-communist Central Europe, 1989-1994”, Harcourt
“There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'”
“The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.”

Source : "The joy of sex" by Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2001.
“This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450
“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”

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