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"To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic."
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"The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail."
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"There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them."
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"Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust."
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"Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays."
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"It is always a difficult issue for each of us to trust one another yet we expect to be trusted by others."
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"Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you."
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"Only God is our reliable help and protection."
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"I've yet to find another soul who believes in me with the same fervency as my mother."
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"I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you."
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"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
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"Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003."
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"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."
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"It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place."
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"I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way."
War

"I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it."
Military

"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980."
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"I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should."
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"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange."
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"Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously."
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"Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war."
War
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