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1 " To the success of our hopeless cause "
― Robert Littell , The Company
2 " Let there be light! said God, and there was light! Let there be blood! says man, and there’s a sea! "
3 " If you want to keep a big secret, disguise it as a boring and inconsequential secret rather then try to convince people it is not a secret at all. "
4 " Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened”), "
5 " It is a great mistake to reduce your enemy to a demon,” Starik said. “It leaves you at a distinct disadvantage when you are attempting to outwit him. "
6 " exfiltrate "
7 " A coincidence was like a matador’s red cape; if you spotted one, your instinct told you to do more than stand there and paw at the ground in frustration. "
8 " and he was too dense—and, in recent months, too drunk—to follow Mother into what T.S. Eliot had called, in his poem “Gerontion,” “the wilderness of mirrors. "
9 " True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information. "
10 " Espionage is an effort to find windows into men’s souls. "
