"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
-Theodor Adorno
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"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."
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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
-Theodor Adorno
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"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
-Theodor Adorno
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"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
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"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
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"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
-E. Howard Hunt
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"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
-Aldrich Ames
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"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
-Aldrich Ames
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"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."
-Aldrich Ames
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"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
-Aldrich Ames
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