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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ↗

— Aristotle

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