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“To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile”
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“The average citizen is the world’s most efficient censor. His own mind is the greatest barrier between him and the facts. His own “logic-proof compartments,” his own absolutism are the obstacles which prevent him from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction.”
― Crystallizing Public Opinion
― Crystallizing Public Opinion
“Intelligence work has one moral law - it is justified by results.”
― The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
“Ah great goddess, don’t be angry with me, please. All that you say is true, how well I know. Look at my wise Penelope. She falls far short of you, your beauty, stature. She is mortal after all and you, you never age or die … Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days— to travel home and see the dawn of my return. And if a god will wreck me yet again on the wine-dark sea, I can bear that too, with a spirit tempered to endure. Much have I suffered, labored long and hard by now in the waves and wars. Add this to the total— bring the trial on!”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
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