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• My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Government, Views

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• We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

  John le Carre

  Years, Political, Literature

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• I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Glasses, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.29, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stories, Tick, Tock

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

  Meister Eckhart

  Simple, Light, Here And There

  Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited

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• I'm a spy. It's not really... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.

  Tom Clancy

  Years, Cia

  "What Do 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' See?". "Larry King Live Weekend", transcripts.cnn.com. August 27, 2000.

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• Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Certain

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Errors, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.20, Yale University Press

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• The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. the Jews always considered an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides. It is seldom that the police investigate a robbery in which a Jew is not found either to be an accomplice or a receiver.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Christian, Country, Law

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• It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

  Helen Fielding

  Uplifting, Fun, Writing

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• All seems infected that th' infected spy,
  As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Yellow, Looks

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 558

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• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Glasses, Breathing

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

  John Waters

  Airplane, Writing, Thinking

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• I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

  Carrie Fisher

  House, Battle, Events

  "A Spy In Her Own House". Interview with Carl Wayne Arrington, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

  Elizabeth Van Lew

  Crush, Freedom, Jealous

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• Women have always been spies

  Harriet Rubin

  Women

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• Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Moving

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.47, FastPencil Inc

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• Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Struggle, Fighting, Life Is

  "Harriet the Spy".

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• But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.

  James Dashner

  Two, Needs, Firsts

  James Dashner (2013). “The Kill Order”, p.148, Chicken House

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• An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

  George Washington

  Character, Needs, Ambassadors

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.34

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• No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he’ll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You’re a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers.

  Tamora Pierce

  Mother, Men, Thinking

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Trickster's Duet”, p.240, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

  Matt Nix

  Desire, Doe, Needs

  Source: deadline.com

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• Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

  Ally Carter

  Skills, Waiting, Masters

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  Russia, Government, Members

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• The CIA runs the drone program in Pakistan solely, not with the military. Then there's a joint CIA-military program in Yemen, then the CIA is involved in a lot of use of spy drones around the world and in the proliferation of bases.

  Medea Benjamin

  Running, Military, Yemen

  Source: progressive.org

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