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While researching 'Horse Soldiers,' I conducted over 100 interviews in the U.S. and in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, I walked and studied key sites that appear in the book. I was able to capture not only the Americans' point of view but the Afghans' as well.

Doug Stanton

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The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

Jochen Zeitz

TeamInitiatives

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Jessamyn West

YouNothingLeaveDearAbout

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

Jeff Bridges

PushScaredThingsAwayNormally

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

Michael Hirst

PeopleYouCreateBe NiceKnowNice

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

John Polkinghorne

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There's nothing wrong with wanting to be in a disco band.

Stephen Morris

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Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

Sigmar Gabriel

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The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Robert Trout

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Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Rousas John Rushdoony

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When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.

Mo Ibrahim

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If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

Moby

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I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

Luca Guadagnino

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