"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
-Samuel Johnson
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.“
-Samuel Johnson
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"To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."
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"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
-Aldrich Ames
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"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust."
-Aldrich Ames
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"We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side."
-Willie Green
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"If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust."
-Shigenori Maruyama
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