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"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore."
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"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe."
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"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
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"Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events."
Concern
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
Being
"But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer."
Answers
"Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests."
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"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."
Information
"With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."
Decision
"So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed."
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