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"I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture."
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"Anything in life is possible when you work hard to achieve it."
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"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."
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"In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one."
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"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."
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"Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated."
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"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
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"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities."
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"Only if you are possible, everything will be possible."
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"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."
Nationalism
"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
Compromise
"In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues."
Ethics
"As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest."
People
"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
Power
"Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with."
Time
"My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues."
Work
"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics."
Ethics
"I would just like to get him to think about these things; whether what's happening in Iraq is promoting the culture of life. The worry is that he is so certain that he know where he's going to lead the country."
Life
"You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome."
War
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