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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#brain power #cheap #compete #going #labor

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#faults #had #less #others #our

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#arrangement #choosing #composure #consists #few

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#castro #come #cuba #fidel #i

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do. ↗

— Deana Carter

#everyone #idea #once #should #successful

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention. ↗

— Deana Carter

#coming #could #either #guy #his

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#children #complete #family #family unit #father

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#also #charles #college #ever #fairly

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#changed #completely #contemporary #contemporary music #depression