"If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle."

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Dan Rather

“During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign republic. To some generals and leaders their position on this was not quite clear. I never once doubted my stance on Bosnia. I always said that Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot belong to this or that, only to the people that lived there since the beginning of time.”
“I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.”
“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”

Source : "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Trish Dunne, Ch. 18), 2009.
“The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.”

Source : "Bush, Blair to hold summit on Iraq", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.
“The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.”
“I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.”
“Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.”
“Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.”

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