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William Odom

"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."

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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."

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Aberjhani

"Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream."

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Aberjhani

"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."

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Aberjhani

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."

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Aberjhani

"Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes."

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Aberjhani

"People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either."

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Aberjhani

"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."

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Aberjhani

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."

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Aberjhani

"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"

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Aberjhani

"You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks."

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Aberjhani

"When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry."

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William Odom
"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."

War

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William Odom
"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."

Love

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William Odom
"It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place."

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William Odom
"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

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William Odom
"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."

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William Odom
"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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William Odom
"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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William Odom
"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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William Odom
"Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously."

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William Odom
"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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