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The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

Andre Malraux

Man's Fate

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Malraux, Andre. La Condition humaine [The Human Condition]. Librairie Gallimard, 1933, pt. 4.

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Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate. Penguin Books, 2009, pt. 4.

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We're especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Annual Convention of the American Bar Association. 8 July 1985, Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, USA.

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We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Margaret Thatcher

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to American Bar Association. 15 July 1985, Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear.

Rudy Giuliani

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Said in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Giuliani, Rudolph. On the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, New York, NY, USA.

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Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?

Susan Sontag

On the 9/11 attacks.

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Sontag, Susan. "The Talk of the Town: Tuesday, and After." The New Yorker, 24 Sept. 2001. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/24/tuesday-and-after-talk-of-the-town

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I love you... That is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers.

Ian McEwan

On the last messages received from those trapped in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

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McEwan, Ian. "Love and then Oblivion. Love was all they had against their murderers." The Guardian, 15 Sept. 2001.

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