“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. —THOMAS MORE”
― A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
― A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
“Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.”
― Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
― Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“There are scores of people who have never recovered, or been recovered, from an FSB interrogation.
They’re a hard organization to describe because nothing like the FSB exists in the USA. To get even remotely close, you’d have to ask the CIA to birth a seven-headed hydra with the faces of the FBI, DEA, NSA, Immigration, Border Patrol, Coast Guard, and the Navy Seals with a hangover and a grudge.”
― Red Russia
They’re a hard organization to describe because nothing like the FSB exists in the USA. To get even remotely close, you’d have to ask the CIA to birth a seven-headed hydra with the faces of the FBI, DEA, NSA, Immigration, Border Patrol, Coast Guard, and the Navy Seals with a hangover and a grudge.”
― Red Russia
“unwanted notoriety to La Porte. It was not his purpose, said Smith, either “to defend the character of Belle Gunness” or “to drag it down.” From the “dismembered bodies of nine persons [that] were found”
― Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
― Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
“In Chicago, the appetite for every juicy tidbit about the case was fed by the yellow papers, which—when no actual news was available—cheerfully dished out wild rumor, lurid gossip, and even rank fabrication.”
― Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
― Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
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