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"Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."

"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

"For all who are amazed or annoyed by the diverse quotes, it is just a reflection how a human mind asynchronously changes the thought patterns, un-edited, raw and authentic!"
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"If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before."

"Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world."

"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."

"It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime."

"Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose."

"An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs."

"The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States."
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