#pa

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. ↗

— Graham Greene

#better #challenge #champagne #detector #detectors

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#attention #fast #god-given #god-given talent #hard

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #becomes #bribe #changes #effect

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#allowing #any #based #been #being

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves. ↗

— Paul Harris

#good #many #obstacles #presented #themselves

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#by the people #classified #control #could #data

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#buy #day #i #line #me

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#athletes #capable #elite #handful #physically

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#because #compared #fewer #look #lot