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    The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from Morocco, travel to places like Saudi Arabia, connection to operations like Madrid. It's like handling a number of particles of mercury, toxic in themselves and even more toxic when they come together.

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Huge amounts of money have disappeared. In return we got nothing but scraps of metal,

Huge amounts of money have disappeared. In return we got nothing but scraps of metal,

by Ali Allawi Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in read more

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pasture near the old greenhouse and moved it closer to the house.

by Mary Austin Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a read more

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

by Cleveland Amory Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

by Alan Ayckbourn Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in read more

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

by Frank Auerbach Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up.
Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.

Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up.
Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.

by Ice Age Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, read more

We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, and it showed.

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Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.

Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.

by Lloyd Axworthy Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by read more

Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.

by George Annas Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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