#iv

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.' ↗

— Howie Carr

#basically #ever #fact #go #huge

To give the best of the day to your work is most important. ↗

— John le Carre

#day #give #important #most #work

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#consists #dead #jones #journalism #knew

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way. ↗

— David Carradine

#always #combination #different #different way #other

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ↗

— John le Carre

#experience #his #like #lives #mainstream

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. ↗

— John le Carre

#always #cleanly #communicate #concern #directly

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. ↗

— John le Carre

#espionage #existence #inside-out #lived #mentality

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#destiny #duty #each #first #fulfilling

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#any #extent #given #know #man