"We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism."

-- John R. Allen

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“I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.”
“For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.”
“I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.”
“In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.”
“I have become a housewife and there is no better job.”
“I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.”
“History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.”

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