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last updated: November 28, 2023

“History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.”
-- Angelo Codevilla

Source : Informing Statecraft (1992).

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“The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.”
-- Angelo Codevilla

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“When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.”
“. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .”
“I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.”
“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”
“A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.”
“AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.”
“I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.”
“What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.”
“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.30, Penguin

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