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“You're a good man, sister”
― Humphrey Bogart

“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

“three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name Of The Rose

“post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier. After sexual intercourse every animal is sad, except the cock (rooster) and the woman.”
― Galen of Pergamum

“Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”
― Roger Bacon

“Intelligence work has one moral law - it is justified by results.”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

“He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You are what you love, not what loves you. ”
― Charlie Kaufman

“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

“O thou invisible spirit of wine

If thou hast no name to be known by let us call thee Devil...”
― William Shakespeare

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Iago”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“The average citizen is the world’s most efficient censor. His own mind is the greatest barrier between him and the facts. His own “logic-proof compartments,” his own absolutism are the obstacles which prevent him from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction.”
― Edward L. Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion

“When we try to change our lifestyles, we put our great courage to the test. There is the anxiety generated by changing, and the disappointment attendant to not changing. I am sure you have selected the latter.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile”
― Pope Gregory VII