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"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money."
"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."
"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo."
"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."
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