It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. – Epictetus
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. – Vladimir Nabokov
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. – Yoko Ono
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Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. – Bobby Ray Inman
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