"Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got."
-Josh Billings
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."
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"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."
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"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."
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"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread."
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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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."
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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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