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[Therefore, Shanghai was also something else:] It was the espionage intelligence center of the Far East, ... It's a very colorful and exotic arena. Shanghai in that period was in some ways an attractive and sinister place.


Bernard Wasserstein

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BERNARD MELTZER If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete...
BERNARD MELTZER There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
BERNARD MELTZER Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you ...
SAINT BERNARD There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
BERNARD MELTZER Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan...
BERNARD CORNWELL Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a mor...
BERNARD PIVOT They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...
BERNARD CORNWELL Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
BERNARD CORNWELL In my experience of shame, the other sees all of me and all through me, even if the occasion of sham...
BERNARD WILLIAMS I really missed them, ... [They're] all I have now. [My] house is gone, trucks gone -- brand new tru...
BERNARD WILLIAMS It's a damn good idea. And it's a long overdue idea.
BERNARD WILLIAMS It sounds like you would be good for housing, but we?re a community treatment team. We?re working wi...
BERNARD WILLIAMS We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots...
BERNARD WILLIAMS I thought as a millennium project it would be fun … to have all the peo...
BERNARD WEBER I believe that after more than 2,000 years it's time to redefine the world wonders. Thanks to intern...
BERNARD WEBER I have to admit, before I started the project, I had about three weeks of sleepless nights. The idea...
BERNARD WEBER They should become symbols of unity in the modern world, just as the original seven wonders were sym...
BERNARD WEBER The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
BERNARD VOTO The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriage...
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