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The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.

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John le Carre

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

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I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

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Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

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There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

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The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

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The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.

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