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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
Robert Harris
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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
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[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.
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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
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