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They are certainly bracing for war ... but they continue to participate in the talks.
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It will be much easier to attack them.
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The main issue was figuring out where it was going, We didn't have to deal with other options.
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It appears a bomb fell short of its target.
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easier to move, harder to find, more lethal, able to strike long distances in short times.
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Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory,
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We are in favor of having NATO move to the next stage, which is the so-called activation warning, to...
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This was a serious, possibly tragic situation.
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Given what we have seen, the active redeployment of (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's) air defenses,...
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These are obviously extremely disturbing and we're looking further at them.
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Sophisticated systems such as the SAM-6 missile can be moved very easily. The Iraqis do that, and th...
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We're doing all that. We think it's good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.
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Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory.
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There is now a clear minimum flight ceiling of 2,000 feet,
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Obviously we are gratified that CNN retracted a report that we believe was not accurate.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
FRANCIS BACON
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and t...
FRANCIS BACON
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
FRANCIS BACON
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
FRANCIS BACON
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more...
FRANCIS BACON
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ...
FRANCIS BACON
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
FRANCIS BACON
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...
FRANCIS BACON
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
FRANCIS BACON
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet ...
FRANCIS BACON
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACON
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
FRANCIS BACON
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and...
FRANCIS BACON
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...
FRANCIS BACON
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age...
FRANCIS BACON
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
FRANCIS BACON
I would live to study, and not study to live.
FRANCIS BACON
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
FRANCIS BACON
For knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
FRANCIS BACON
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
FRANCIS BACON