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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. – 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. – 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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Be smarter than other people, just dont tell them so. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. – Cofer Black

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I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost. – John O. Brennan

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Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. – Lord Mountbatten

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All in the Family was intellectual it was art. – Carroll OConnor

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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, Ill arrange a marriage for you at 18, but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. – Indra Nooyi

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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck — and, of course, courage. – Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986

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The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman. – John R. Whiting

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