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"But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart."
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"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."
"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment."
"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
"Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives."
"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."
"Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it."
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"Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists."
"You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently."
"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."
"First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict."
"Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections."
"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."
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