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🇬🇧Graham Greene

Literature

1904–1991

"Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel."

🇮🇪John le Carré

Literature

1931–2020

"I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies."

T. E. Lawrence

Military

1888–1935

"An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance."

Ma Ying-jeou

Politics

b. 1950

"There will be no national flags or other kinds of flags designed to specify cross-strait relations inside or outside the offices because we are not foreign nations to each other."

🇺🇸Harriet Tubman

Social Activism

1822–1913

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

🇬🇧Richard Francis Burton

Military

1821–1890

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

🇫🇷Savitri Devi

Social Activism

1905–1982

"I asked Savitri ... how she would have received her mother. Without batting an eyelid, she said: 'I would have shot her.'"

Nathan Hale

Military

1755–1776

"The Last Days and Valiant Death of Nathan Hale" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 15, Issue 3"

🇺🇸James Jesus Angleton

Military

1917–1987

"Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State."

🇺🇸Whittaker Chambers

Literature

1901–1961

"Now, the Communists recognized at once that Senator McCarthy is a political godsend."

🇺🇸Valerie Plame

Literature

b. 1963

"Valerie Plame, in spotlight again", Associated Press"

🇮🇱Tzipi Livni

Politics

b. 1958

"The sooner the Arab children will learn that they must build their houses where they are now, as the solution is not their return to Israel, the better it will be for everyone."