"One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day."
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"Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society."
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"I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe."
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"To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'"
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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."
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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."
-Willie Green
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"If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust."
-Shigenori Maruyama
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