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William Odom

"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."

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"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."

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"With shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before."

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"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

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"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

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"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

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"I am an American. I love this country."

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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

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"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

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"My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it."

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"The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics."
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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."
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"I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political."
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"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation."
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"Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously."
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"So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind."
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"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
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"I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it."
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"It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place."
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"Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise."
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