"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so."
-Stephen Leacock
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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.“
-Stephen Leacock
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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
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"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
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"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
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"Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."
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"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."
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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."
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"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
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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."
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"We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side."
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"If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust."
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