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I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Afternoon Been Born Boy Break Church Couple Dress Eight Fancy Five Guests Had House Just Last Lost Love Married Over Parents Preacher Shade Stretched Struggling Summer Taking Taking A Break Them Tree Two Were Who Without Working Years Young I Was Born

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Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Achievement Been Development Dream Effort Every Great Individual Industrial Make Men Mind Opportunity Practical Result

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The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Any Been Complete Connected Consequence Could Department Desired Entire Ever Every Finished First First Time Homestead Nothing Plant Satisfaction Say Taken Time Whole Works

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

~Charles Mackay

Topics: Been Go Herd Mad Men Only Recover Said Seen Senses Slowly Think Well While Will

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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

~Charles Mackay

Topics: Again Almost Become Been Cause Delusion Desperate Existence Money Multitudes Nations Often Once Paper Piece Sober Turn

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Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

~Charles Mccarry

Topics: Act After Again Appeared Been Characters Christopher Coming Doing Expect Expected Happens He Just Keep Me Most Never Nowhere Out Paul Persistent Productive See Them Things Whom Writing

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I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

~Charles Mccarry

Topics: Acts Always Baffled Been Cia Critics Does Horrified Illegal Intelligence Perform Purpose Service Things Who

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I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer.

~Charles Mccarry

Topics: Admired Always Any Been Course Different Drawing Example Feel For Example Kind More Must Myself Other Prose Than Very Writer Writers Writing

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Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.

~Charles Mccarry

Topics: America Another Anything Been Central Cia Could Director Everything First Fond Founded Had Harbor Impossible Intelligence Knew Make Mission Never Pearl Pearl Harbor Prevent Ranks Richard Rise Saying Sure Underlying Wishful Would

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When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

~Charles Mccarry

Topics: Assignment Been Blame Cia Large Organization

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