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“Intellectual freedom is essential to human society—freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate, and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.”
― The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
― The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
“It’s stressful to try to summon up 100% motivation sitting on the couch. Let yourself use 5% motivation to do 5% of the task. Maybe you keep going. Maybe you don’t. That’s ok. Anything worth doing is worth doing partially.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help
― How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help
“Fischer also believes that Cyclone suited the image U.S. intelligence leaders liked to project of the CIA, of an organization packed with spooks and paramilitaries who fought in war zones, in sharp contrast to the more intellectual pursuit of sponsoring books and publishing. “The bottom line was that it didn’t fit their image of themselves as CIA operators who went around recruiting spies,” he said. “The operators, the spy guys, think covert action is a waste of time, waste of money,” he said. The result was that some of the people who worked on Polish operations were not properly recognized for their work, despite being “heroes of the story,” as Fischer puts it. Richard Malzahn, who ran QRHELPFUL from Langley, was one of those who suffered. Far from being promoted, he was packed off to be a lowly analyst.”
― The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
― The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
“A cat had to balance his willingness to help humankind with the knowledge that people must learn to do things for themselves.”
― Cat to the Dogs
― Cat to the Dogs
“Some seeds need fire to sprout. What if you’re that seed?”
― The Seed Keeper
― The Seed Keeper
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