"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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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

Richard Carlson, American Author

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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet

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"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."

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"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."

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"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."

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"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."

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"The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority."

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

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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."

"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."

"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."

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"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."

"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."

"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."

"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."

"The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority."

"We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed."

"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."

"The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'."

"It's a different world."

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