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All Quotes Collection
"Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?"
Want,
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
45
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
64
"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
65
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
61
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
62
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
182
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
31
"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
50
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
78
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
58
"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
24
"That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require."
36
"And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed."
42
"And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter."
38
"And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish."
41
"But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence."
43
"In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities."
58
"It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst."
43
"One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them."
43
"When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications."
38
"Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national."
53
"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."
59
"So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern."
40
"We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people."
38
"We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future."
42
"Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future."
46
"The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection."
35
"The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed."
42
"The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies."
60
"There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw."
44
"Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?"
21
"What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
18
"Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected."
45
"All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States."
40
"I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming."
36
"I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution."
37
"Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties."
47
"The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S."
45
"The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent."
48
"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."
36
"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."
38
"A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard."
54
"No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment."
37
"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."
39
"What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits."
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