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"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
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"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
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"It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties."
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"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
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"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
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"You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands."
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"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
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"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way."
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
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"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."
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"The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people."
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"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."
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"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
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"I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed."
Time
"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties."
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"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
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"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
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"In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy."
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"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
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"Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with."
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