"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
-Susan Sontag
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"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
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"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."
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"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
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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."
-Aldrich Ames
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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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