"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

Ambiguity, Being, Resolution, Sensitivity

"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Ambiguity, Writing

"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

Ambiguity, Ending, Open

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Ambiguity, Kingman Brewster

"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Ambiguity, Violence, Paradox, Darkness, Light

"In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

Ambiguity, Danger, Instinct, Threat

"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Ambiguity, Confusion, Mistakes

"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

Ambiguity, May

"It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Ambiguity, Trust, Alliance, Uncertainty, Conflict

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"We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam."

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"Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down."

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"Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage."

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"As of now, I am in control here in the White House."

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"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."

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"You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism."

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"A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples."

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"Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes."

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