“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, these are matters of which no jest can be made.”

Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“Feelings! I have no time for them, no chance of them.”

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves, independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion.”

Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

“The CIA has been trapped by its own accomplishment. They succeeded in destroying the Soviet Union, and subsequently the KGB. So now that the Cold War was over, many people have begun to think that there is no need to have a high priced intelligence organization like the CIA anymore. The CIA needs to do something to justify its existence and maintain its budget.”

Paul Adirex, Until the Karma Ends

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“At one time the KGB had been regarded as the most efficient intelligence organization in the world.”

Paul Adirex, Until the Karma Ends

“Maybe the KGB is still alive and active.”

Paul Adirex, Until the Karma Ends

“Most national leaders all over the world tend to be hypocrites, Sang Ya. That’s why people in many countries, Burma included, are suffering.”

Paul Adirex, Until the Karma Ends

“He often said that it was impossible to separate business from politics or vice versa.”

Paul Adirex, Until the Karma Ends

“Each person has his own destiny and possesses the characteristics required to fulfill that destiny.”

Paul Adirex, Mekong

“Everyone’s life is controlled by destiny, which is the consequence of karma in one’s past lives and present life.”

Paul Adirex, Mekong