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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

William Shakespeare
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Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.

John Lecarre
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He has revealed information on nuclear spies both inside and outside Iran as well as to families of the suspects.

Jamal Karimirad
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That's what good spies do. They blend in and make friends.

Jose Basulto
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A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.

Robert Jenkins
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Not at all. Our spies are just regular people ... people that are excited to see someone they like. Our readers are, for the most part, a very educated, well-meaning bunch.

Jessica Coen
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I think this is a ridiculous outcome, ... These people are innocent and they should be freed immediately. They are not spies.

Richard Holbrooke
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I was surrounded by these guys who were spies right after World War II, when they were paranoid at the Russians... I had school friends whose fathers I would see arrive home in uniform, and leave the next day in civilian clothes, and disappear for a month. Sometimes they would come home, and sometimes not.

Stuart Banks
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We all went through hell to get in here, and they investigate us routinely. That is what catches the spies.

Manuel Garcia
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It was this dark, secluded place with lots of little rooms and passageways, and you just knew there were real spies and espionage taking place.

Dave Baldwin
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We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it's not the place of the government or the best use of resources to spy on its own citizens and we want it to stop. We want the spies in our government to pack their bags, close up their notebooks, take their cameras home and not engage in the spying anymore.

Gerald Weber
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It's like something you get from Spooks -- you can think, 'I'm suddenly an MI5 agent.' You can see how it could work -- it plays on people's romanticism about spies.

Mark Toshack
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Everybody spies on everybody. I was stunned to hear that myself. Someday, I may have to rely on a French satellite to convict an American citizen.

Richard Edwards
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We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies.

John Orton
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According to Islam, the blood of anyone who spies for the enemy or sympathizes with it in time of war must be shed.

Abdul Salam
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