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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct

And life is but a dream.... Things happened in life, and you felt them, but it was all in your mind, the colors, the fear and anxiety. People surrounded you and houses did, and towns, but what you saw was not so important as what you felt. Life was one thing after another, a brief insanity, a series of inexplicable transitions that seemed at the time sensible, but at second sight ridiculous, a succession of unconnected incidents, accidental relationships. ↗

— John Dufresne

#death

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#education #judged #nationality #people #performance

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left? ↗

— David Bowie

#come #down #get #got #how

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#bottle #bucks #family #friendly #good

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. ↗

— David Bowie

#course #departing #journey #same #time

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. ↗

— David Bowie

#had #human #i #i always #more

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ↗

— Robert Browning

#day #earth #else #feel #god

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. ↗

— David Bowie

#ago #articulate #comes #does #explaining

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents. ↗

— David Bowie

#best #bring #i #i believe #i believe that