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Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.


Shimon Peres

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VIKAS SWARUP The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the vie...
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We do not support terrorist activities, and we don't have any involvement with terror financing in a...
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and ...
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ED GILLESPIE The accumulated evidence to date indicates that we are not yet winning the war on terror,
OSAMA BIN LADEN The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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JEANIE MAMO The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.
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YOSSI SARID Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hin...
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RAY WILKINSON The war on terror is not limited to Iraq. It is not limited to Afghanistan. They are but fronts in t...
JOHN CORNYN Our report finds that there is a gap between policies leadership says it respects on paper, and beha...
DEBORAH PEARLSTEIN Just because one bad apple is rotten it shouldn't or doesn't mean that the rest of the crate is too....
GARY F EVANS... We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with th...
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NORM TOMLINSON a terror attack which has international links.
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NELSON MANDELA Our nation was still stunned by the events of September 11 when this crash occurred. ... [The] possi...
CAROL CARMODY So? What are you going to do about it? Throw your mashed potatoes at me? I'm consumed by terror.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Careful as a naked man climbin' a barbed wire fence
COWBOY PROVERB But equating Islam and Muslims with violence and terror is not new. It has been going on for a long ...
CHANDRA MUZAFFAR Only difference can beget variations. Singleness can not beget variations.
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AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN Love me, do not judge me.
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VIKRANT PARSAI I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that f...
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REGGIE BUSH The trend is not going to stop.
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VICTOR HUGO Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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