"What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated."

-- Thomas P.M. Barnett

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“Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.”
“I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.”
“A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.”
“I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.”
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
“The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.”
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
“I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.”

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