Aldrich Ames Quotes
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
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There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
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As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
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I wonder if they ever are. I thought they might let that go this year, but it didn't seem apparent at all. Right away, he got booed. He just may be one of those guys that has to carry that for a year or two until another group comes along that gives him a break.
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The Voice Chamber hatches a new and healthy experience of the vibrational universe
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I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
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First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
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What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
