Eric Ambler Quotes
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
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I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.
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I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.
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Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
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And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?
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Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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“Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.”
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Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.
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It's easy, once the lamps are lit, to scoff at shadows.
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People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
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Power is the goal of religion in general.
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Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.
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They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
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When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
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The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
