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Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.
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Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.
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Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
Source: Schneier, Bruce. Interview with Doug Kaye. IT Conversations: Bruce Schneier. 2004-04-16. -
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.
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