"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."
-Thomas Sowell
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"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.“
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"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
-Thomas Sowell
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"The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."
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"Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results."
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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
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"One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring."
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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."
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"If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust."
-Shigenori Maruyama
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