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1 " In war, the first casualty is truth. "
― Terry Hayes , I Am Pilgrim
2 " The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back. "
3 " People say love is weak, but they're wrong: love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things - patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And every kind of love - the epic and the small, the noble and the base - the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all. That was the lesson I learned that day, and I'll be forever grateful I did. Some years later, deep in the ruins called Theatre of Death, it salvaged everything. "
4 " I had been to Jeddah on my previous trip, so I knew it well enough. There was only one thing to recommend it: say, you wanted to commit suicide and couldn’t quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick. "
5 " The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs. "
6 " The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone. "
7 " I have heard people say love is weak but they're wrong--love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things--patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love--the epic and the small, the noble and the base--the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all. "
8 " We wanted a labour force, but human beings came. "
9 " A writer called Robert Louis Stevenson once said that ‘sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences. "
10 " man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. Raymond Chandler, The "
11 " nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly. "
12 " There was one thing the experience had taught him. He said he'd learned that when millions of people, a whole political system, countless numbers of citizens who believed in God, said they were going to kill you -- just listen to them. "
13 " The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back "
14 " If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go. "
15 " You can kill a thinker, but you can't kill the thought. "
16 " If you take the final betrayal out of it,' he said, 'he was a fine agent - one of the best.'I stared at him. 'That's one way of putting it,' I replied. 'If you take the bomb out of it, 6 August was probably a nice day in Hiroshima. "
17 " The driver thought I was crazy—but then his religion thinks stoning a woman to death for adultery is reasonable, so I figured we were about even. "
18 " if the shit is up to your neck—whatever you do, don’t make waves. "
19 " Computers don't lie, but liars can compute. "
20 " Like people say—if you want to make God laugh, tell him you’ve got plans. "
