"If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable."

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Peter Bergen

#Organization Quotes #Trying Quotes #Als Quotes

“Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.”

Source : "'Twilight' Star Cam Gigandet Talks About Creepy Kids In 'Unborn,' Being Shirtless Onscreen". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 24, 2008.
“The United Nations has no business in our elections.”
“What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.”
“I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.”
“In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.”
“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”
“It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason'....The earliest printed use so far traced comes in The Pilgrimage of Perfection - usually attributed to William Bonde - printed in 1536 by Wynkyn de Worde.”
“We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”

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