The 9/11 history is buried underground, just like the N train across the street.
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We have another tragedy -- forgetfulness. 9/11 is being buried underground.
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another, that he may retire the so...
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...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin...
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer ...
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L.J. SMITH People are looking like I was responsible for 9/11. Me 9/11? Seven-Eleven, maybe.
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To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run w...
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When we spoke, he told me, 'The Newsweek thing has changed the world.' And I said, 'Wasn't it 9/11 t...
ALBERT BROOKS just as 9-11 was a response to the U.S.
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI People are looking at me like I'm responsible for 9/11. Me? 9/11? No ... 7-Eleven, maybe.
AZHAR USMAN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
RON CHERNOW The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand mil...
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SEX AND THE CITY It just came across the bay and the place literally shook. It was like the sound of a steam train co...
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Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
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I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.
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Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorist...
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time
VIRGIL
Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
...
TOM PETTY 10. Both the North Tower and the South Tower collapsed just as their respective fires were dying dow...
DAVID RAY GRIFFIN Hey, I just found it out it was already September. I don't know what the date is, just that it's Day...
BILL HOWELL there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
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And next time we hear someone saying something like, 'We are pursuing this strategy because other st...
GEORGE SAUNDERS It's just shocking how far off the charts 9/11, the tsunami and the hurricanes are.
PATRICK ROONEY For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op...
RAQUEL CEPEDA I started doing radio at KMPX, the first of the underground rock 'n' roll stations.
CHANDLER LAUGHLIN We offered off-site check-in before 9/11, but the Transportation Security Agency shut it down after ...
DAVID BOURGON Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA My boss said this is a lot like how people responded after 9/11.
ELIZABETH BUTLER When you hear that date, it just can't help but jog your memory. You hear 9/11, it just makes you th...
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I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
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Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investig...
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
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The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE
History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO Since 9/11, the battlefield has changed.
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Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE I was not 9/11 material, but a wanna-be post-9/11 terrorist,
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Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am...
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UMBERTO ECO Real rock 'n' roll should come from the underground, but China didn't have one. My song Nothing to M...
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UFUOMA APOKI The first heroes of 9/11 were here.
BRIAN ROHRBAUGH It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.
CHRIS CARR I just don't think pre-9/11 you would have seen that.
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Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to ou...
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For the 9/11 commission to say that this did not exist is just absolutely outrageous. It's a total d...
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The history meant that someone like Todt would go work there. The history was what convinced Michael...
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but th...
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “histor...
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When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection ...
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E. L. DOCTOROW Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.
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, THE LESSONS OF HISTORY, CHAPTER 11, 1968
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The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY This is the equivalent of handing back the box cutters to the 9/11 hijackers,
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Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.
ALAN GREENSPAN The tragedy of 9-11 weighed heavily on him.
LANNY BREUER I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... I think a sheriff must be street smart. In smaller departments like Geneva County, the sheriff is th...
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Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.
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Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11,
ROBIN HAYES I feel like there has been a loss of urgency since 9/11.
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BRIAN GOODMAN When 9/11 happened,
LINCOLN CHAFEE The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)
BIBLE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
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Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
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I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. [President Bush] is trying to for...
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Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?
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It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
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And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not
exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of
the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE
Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way,
ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no
small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the
world.
EDMUND BURKE
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE