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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

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Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#cases #collect #confidential #convicted #court

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#any #bonds #like #matrimony #mature

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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I'd rather be homesick than home. ↗

— Leo Vroman

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There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time. ↗

— Andy Wachowski

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