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Spying among friends is never acceptable. -- Angela Merkel
Spying has always gone on since ancient times. -- Vladimir Putin
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. -- John Rhys-Davies
Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information. -- Muriel Lester
Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way. -- C. S. Lewis
The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on. -- John le Carre
In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country. -- Melita Norwood
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records. -- Rand Paul
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. -- Julian Assange
I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives. -- Maria Semple
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. -- Howard Rheingold
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. -- Rand Paul
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans. -- Glenn Greenwald
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal. -- Ellen Tauscher
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story. -- John le Carre
I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. -- Witold Pilecki
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. -- Sun Tzu
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe. -- Richard C. Armitage
I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean. -- Annabella Sciorra
It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story. -- John le Carre
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. -- Sarah Parcak
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them. -- R. L. Stine
I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who doesn't know they're looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously - you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not. -- Betty White
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous. -- Odette Annable
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters. -- Russell Smith
Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.' -- Eve Bunting
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much. -- David O. Russell
Googling is not spying. It's social networking. -- Sarah
We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity. -- Paul Christopher
So you've taken to spying on her. It must be love. -- Richard Finney
What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret? -- Thea Harrison
I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people. -- Al Franken
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented, -- Julian Assange
...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us. -- Daniel Dennett
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I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing. -- Kresley Cole
We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay. -- Gena Showalter
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. -- Edward Snowden
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own. -- William Penn
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Powers
I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody. -- Tom Morello
The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other. -- E. F. Benson
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Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways. -- Samuel Butler
There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'. -- Philip K. Dick
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society. -- Eric Schmidt
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe. -- Richard C. Armitage
stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows. -- Martha Gellhorn
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case. -- John le Carre
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo. -- Ann Coulter
The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised. -- Selima Hill
When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Why are you constantly escorting me places?" I say. "Isn't there a depraved activity you're supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something? -- Veronica Roth
Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning. -- Jamie Bell
I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government. -- Ron Paul
The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%. -- Jerry Brown
Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset -- Lesley M.M. Blume
Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants. -- Wendy Kaminer

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