#cia

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#mouth #nose #special

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician. ↗

— Frank Black

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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

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All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. ↗

— Marc Bolan

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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#beneficial #i #i am #provide #public

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devil #division #effort #god #labor

Great liars are also great magicians. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#great #liars #magicians

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

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