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Letter "S" » spying
«I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.»
«The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.»
«Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.»
Author: John LeCarre
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Writer)
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Keywords:
alchemist,
alchemists,
berlin,
cabinet,
cabinets,
cloak,
garrison,
garrisoned,
garrisons,
liquid,
miracle worker,
piper,
pipers,
playground,
playgrounds,
spied,
spies,
spying,
worker
«Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know»
«I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
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General)
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Keywords:
camp,
From Hell,
in truth,
newspaperman,
newspapermen,
pick up,
print,
rumors,
spied,
spies,
spying
«In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
blemish,
blemished,
blemishes,
dimmed,
dimming,
dims,
mote,
motes,
speck,
specks,
spied,
spy,
spying
«An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred»
«Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.»
«The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.»
Author: Sun Tzu
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Author,
General)
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Keywords:
ascertainable,
disposes,
dispose of,
disposing,
lay,
penetrated,
penetrating,
plans,
pried,
pry,
prying,
shape,
spied,
spies,
spying,
The Ultimate,
troops
«When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!»