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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Book, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.

  Joe Biden

  Change, Jobs, Commitment

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• Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas-water vapor-into the atmosphere every day and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not man-made, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.

  Roy Spencer

  Mother, Men, Clouds

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• Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Coffee, Missing

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• Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Patriotic, Men

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

  Seth Godin

  Leader, World, Transformation

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• If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

  Robert Solow

  Two, Three, Dimensions

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• Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it's sad.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen - as it happened", www.theguardian.com.

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• What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

  Thomas Friedman

  Religious, Political, Movement

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Generosity, Giving, Stinginess

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• Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

  Leon Panetta

  Country, Safe Haven, Winning

  'This Week' with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. June 27, 2010.

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Remember, Never Forget, Forget

  FaceBook post by Tatiana de Rosnay from Jul 16, 2012

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• Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).

  Umar

  Noble, Increase

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• Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Pride, Flaws

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• As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Pain, Dad, Light

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• Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

  Steve Gleason

  Patient, Fades, Dies

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• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Heart, Land, Jail

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• To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Usa, Political, President

  "Does Obama Deserve Credit for Killing Qaddafi?" by Adam Clark Estes, www.theatlantic.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

  Richard Russo

  Children, Men, Parent

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 21, 2013

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• To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

  Al-Ghazali

  Hate, Love You, Islamic

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• I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

  Javier Bardem

  Believe, Said, I Believe

  "'I always fight directors'". Interview with Christopher Turner, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy.

  Barack Obama

  Green, Firsts, Young

  "Watch President Obama Shout Out Young Jeezy" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. April 29, 2012.

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• Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

  Barack Obama

  Taken, Leader, Political

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. December 25, 2011.

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