Banushis Quotes & Sayings

But Freeh's FBI managed to bury the fact that its most highly valued source on Chinese espionage in the United States, a politically wired California woman named Katrina Leung, had been spying for China throughout the 1980s and 1990s. All the while, she was having sex with the special agent in charge of her case, a top supervisor of the FBI's China Squad, James J. Smith - and occasionally with a leading FBI counterintelligence expert on China, William Cleveland. — Tim Weiner

What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion. — Michel De Montaigne

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. — Sam Ewing

Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform. — Margaret Mead

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. — Mikhail Bakunin

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living. — Stefan Hell

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them. — Howard Thurman

You want somethin' else, Eddie, and you can never have her! — Arthur Miller