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afghanistan afghan ifs
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. Asne Seierstad
afghanistan perceive has-beens
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive. Arthur Conan Doyle
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We're going to continue to engage Afghan authorities on this matter in order to help seek accountability for any violations that may have occurred. Tommy Franks
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We're in the south to help and protect the Afghan people to reconstruct their economy and democracy. We would be perfectly happy to leave in three year's time without firing one shot.
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The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution. Richard Holbrooke
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In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.
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Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. John Abizaid
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The people of Pakistan assisted the Afghan people during our long years of problems, during the Soviet invasion, they provided all possible assistance. So when they are in need, the people of Afghanistan share their pain and want to do whatever possible to assist.
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Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.
blow wrecks lasts
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. Charles Dickens
blow light candle
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Charles Spurgeon
blow sharks hands
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. Alan Alda
blow people focus
I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor. Chris Christie
blow people suffering
Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
blow white african-american
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. Camille Paglia
blown good step
We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're capable. We just have to step it up a little bit. Vince Carter
blow wind liberty
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have. William Shakespeare
blow world buffets
I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.
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When he first gets off the plane, I'm going to hug him. Then I'm going to collapse for a few hours, and then we're going to sit down for a long discussion about the consequences.
collapse facing financial solution unless within
Unless a solution is found, we may be facing the financial collapse of the PA within two weeks. James Wolfensohn
collapse good happened knew post tried
We knew they were going to collapse on our post players. We just tried to find good looks, and they happened to be from the outside.
collapse happen matter models
Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months. Alan Stern
collapsed found hit school taken
She collapsed at school and was taken to the hospital, ... That's how we found out she had asthma. It hit us by surprise.
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We're looking forward to nailing down the details as quickly as we can. We'll continue to talk until people collapse and even then we could talk in our sleep if we have to.
collapse push tried
We tried to collapse on her and push out of the paint.
collapse dramatic frame time
The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes.
collapse hurricane katrina lack national suffered suggest
Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.
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We're in schools at least three or four times a week trying to teach students and parents about the dangers on the Internet. We try to impress upon them that the odds are in their favor. They most likely won't be a victim, but if they are, there can be severe consequences.
dangers virtue
What this illustrates is the virtue of being more plain-spoken and the dangers when you are not. Alan Blinder
dangers entire gas inherent throughout using
there are too many dangers inherent with using gas throughout the entire complex. Tom Daschle
dangers grow keeping movies son
Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies. Tom Guiry
dangers health owners pose safer selling suggest
Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.' Walter Kirn
dangers definitely
The dangers are definitely there, it is always in the back of your head.
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The dangers and injuries in the Midwest may have to do with the fact that roofing jobs are undertaken at significantly higher rates than in the other regions.
dangers far good outweigh risk
No good can come from it. The dangers far outweigh any positive. In today's world why take any risk?
dangers inventing solution
One of the dangers is inventing a solution before there is a problem. Danny Miller
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the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.
greater market moderation pace rates seeing slightly
We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.
greater successes suffers
Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.
greater
Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before. Bill Johnson
greater interest name sum
We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.
greater insight looking power questions stories ways
I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.
greater
We feel that we are greater than we know. William Wordsworth
greater love requires theatre ways
Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill. Joseph Fiennes
greater hoping oftentimes process public understanding
The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.
huge portions seeing systems
We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.
huge three win
We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.
huge opens player space
When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.
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I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'
hugely land sale weighs whether
Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria. Paul Campbell
huge next weeks
We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development. Pete Carroll
huge
There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest. Kent Beck
huge limited
With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.
huge musical people
I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real. Keke Palmer
moral courageous obligation
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation. Al Sharpton
moral manners pleasure
To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated. Edmond Rostand
morality
Morality is but the vestibule of religion. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
moral compromise
It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises. Edward Kennedy
moral-corruption indifference crime
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. Bess Myerson
moral sock behave
It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself. Charlaine Harris
moral conformity resolve
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God. Charles Hodge
morality credibility knows
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality. Bob Hawke
moral reluctance seems
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. Barbara Tuchman
nato
NATO will always be hopeful, but we'll always be realistic.
nato
I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up. Donald Trump
nato stay
We don't need NATO to stay on as guarantor for peace, Boris Trajkovski
nato request taking
I will be taking that request back to NATO headquarters to see what we can do.
nato stay
That will not keep NATO from doing what it is going to do. NATO will stay the course. We are not leaving.
nato time
This is the first time NATO has done something like this on this scale.
nato teeth
Those teeth will be supplied by the NATO countries, Robin Cook
nato progress standing states united
These two individuals are standing in the way of Serbia's progress with NATO and the United States as well as with Europe.
nato relief situation
It is unprecedented. NATO is not a humanitarian relief organization, but the situation is so serious.
pakistan kashmir inches
I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
pakistan terrorism evolve
I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari
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Pakistan is doing a lot more than they were doing, ... They have put thousands of troops on the border. ... I think this is a considerable effort. It is going in the right direction.
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I think Pakistan is more under pressure than us because they are playing at home. Virender Sehwag
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We are willing to supply to Pakistan whatever is on their priority list, Manmohan Singh
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You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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The response to Pakistan was quicker and more long lasting, and more supplies (were delivered) than we had done in the tsunami relief effort.
pakistan higher
Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside! Harsha Bhogle
pakistan belief slogans
You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief, Imran Khan
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Charles Caleb Colton
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stanley
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
taliban
Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
troops
We're going to need all our able-bodied troops in Tallahassee. Larry Coker
troops
We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us. B. F. Skinner
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You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you. Diane Ravitch
troops
No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this. Katherine Jenkins
troops streets
Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street. David Bonderman
troops allies protection
Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops. Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops. Erwin Rommel
troops looks host
I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. Kenneth Williams
troops knows know-how
These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will. Kathleen Blanco
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
women said mould
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Alan Jay Lerner