"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."
-Alexander Pope
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"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.“
-Alexander Pope
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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."
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