"If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation."

-- Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

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“I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.”
“We love being in love, that's the truth on't.”
“His reputation preceded him before he got here.”
“He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly. Some say it was the song that moves the stars.”
“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”
“On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.”
“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”

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