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John le Carre

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

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Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

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