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american-author government happens moved power protect quickly sure
We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. Michael Connelly
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Sandra Cisneros
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This was a team that truly learned the meaning of (what it is like to) be a team, and they can take that with them the rest of their lives. Tim Collins
american-author deserves human race
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. Elizabeth Janeway
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different. Evan Hunter
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unparalleled experience as a judge and prosecutor, and as director of the FBI and of the CIA makes him a superb choice. Paul Sarbanes
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Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.
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Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.
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I was first contacted by Fitzgerald's office on November 3 after one of these (three) officials went to Fitzgerald to discuss an interview with me in mid-June 2003 during which the person told me Wilson's wife worked for the CIA on weapons of mass destruction as a WMD analyst, Bob Woodward
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I am concerned -- and I think most people are concerned -- about the lack of coordination between agencies, ... The failure to work together to share information -- they're doing that now, in fact. As we know, the CIA director and the FBI director are briefing the president every morning, so there were obviously breakdowns -- particularly in coordinating and sharing information. John McCain
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My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform. Michael Hayden
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Neither the CIA nor French intelligence seems to be cooperating.
cia seems
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' Barry Eisler
cia needed
I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen. Pete Hoekstra
life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted... Carol Shields
life beautiful struggle
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
life strong truthful
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. Carlos Castaneda
life people important
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years.
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
life responsibility desert
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
life player games
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis
life faith creativity
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
time math science
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Carl Friedrich Gauss
time writing math
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
time time-management enough
There's time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt
time dark mind
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle. Charles de Lint
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. Eric Schmidt
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'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me. Ludivine Sagnier
written
I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people. Lisa Cholodenko
written
I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.' James Gray
written
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. James Joyce
written
Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited. Bram Cohen
written
We're written off every year, so we're used to it.
written
Why did you want an addendum to what you had already written and signed?
written
I have written stories since I was a child. Rachel Joyce