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Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantanamo more or less continuously, kept awake for much of that time by loud music being blasted when he was falling asleep, doused with water and subjected to cold temperatures, kept naked and forced to perform tricks as if he were a dog.

Peter Bergen

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If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Jim Sasser

FriendTreatChancePotentialBetter

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Joe Manganiello

SportsCollegePlayActorGoneWell

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

John Edward Redmond

GovernmentCountryWhyMatterFraud

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

Melanie Griffith

BodyOldYearsHeadCutOff

With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.

Robert Scoble

TechnologyBetterWillActivityAble

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.

Angie Thomas

WorldLookSometimesSideActivism

Whether it be a red eyeliner or a graphic line on the crease of my lids, I'm more attracted to the ideas of something interesting than being 'pretty.'

Solange Knowles

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By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Simon Schama

UglyEndAmericanPlaceEurope

The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.

Mike Gallagher

ChildrenGovernmentBeliefRightOur

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

Michael Lee-Chin

LifeMotherAgeMyselfMeEarly

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

ServiceFirePoliceMedicalRadio

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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