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title: "At this point in my career I knew the world well enough to know the trick is never to call anything touchy by its real name"
date: 2015-06-13
author: Drew Breunig
url: https://www.dbreunig.com/2015/06/13/at-this-point-in-my-career-i-knew-the-world-well.html
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> At this point in my career I knew the world well enough to know the trick is never to call anything touchy by its real name

—[Robert Baer in _The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assasins_](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399168575/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0399168575&linkCode=as2&tag=drewbot-20&linkId=C47MAQF2BP5EHAGO)