"It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies."

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Source : "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.

Ahmed Chalabi

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“Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”
“For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am.”
“McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.”
“However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.”
“Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?”
“When I wasnt sure what the word charisma meant, I met Steve Jobs and then I knew.”
“When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.”
“This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian . [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.”

Source : "Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension" by Michio Kaku, (p. 137), 1995.

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