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Doris Lessing

"September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."

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"September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."

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Amber Hurdle

"The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target."

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"Those who believe in humanity must come together to fight for it as one, and speak against this menace in one voice. Terrorism must be de-legitimized."

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Amber Hurdle

"Terrorism is most serious challenge to open & pluralistic societies.Combating it requires collective effort. We need to target not only the terrorists, but also their entire supporting ecosystem. Our strongest action should be reserved for those state actors who employ terrorism as an instrument of State Policy."

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"Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion."

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"Death is only a byproduct of terrorism."

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Amber Hurdle

"To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!"

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Amber Hurdle

"As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi."

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"September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."

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"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."
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"Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship."
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"I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to their flat at all: that the ties between Nelson and his wife are bitterly close, and never to be broken in their lives. They are tied by the closest of all bonds, neurotic pain-giving; the experience of pain dealt and received; pain as an aspect of love; apprehended as a knowledge of what the world is, what growth is.Nelson is about to leave his wife; he will never leave her. She will wail at being rejected and abandoned; she does not know she will never be rejected."
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"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."
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"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."
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"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this."
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"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."
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"Women often get dropped from memory, and then history."
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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
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"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
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