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We will make no distinction between terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.

George W. Bush

Address to the Nation on 9-11

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Bush, George W. "9/11 Address to the Nation." 11 Sept. 2001, Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking?

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander

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Zoolander. Directed by Ben Stiller, Village Roadshow Productions/VH1 Films/NPV Entertinment/Red Hour Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2001.

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Because the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.

Ocean's Eleven

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Ocean's Eleven. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Village Roadshow Pictures/NPV Entertainment/Jerry Weintraub Productions/Section Eight Productions, 2001.

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We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all... Due to my experience in this field. I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for.

Osama bin Laden

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Bin Laden, Osama. Quoted in "Text: Bin Laden Discusses Attacks on Tape." Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2001. Originally stated to a group of supporters. Nov. 2001, possibly in Qandahar, Afghanistan.

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A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”

Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt

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Adams, Douglas. "Interview: Douglas Adams." Interviewed by Brendan Buhler. Artsweek. University of California Santa Barbara Daily Nexus, 5 Apr. 2001.

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Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt. William Heinemann Ltd./Pocket Books, 2002, ch. 11.

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We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

George W. Bush

Address to Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001

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Bush, George W. Address to joint session of Congress. Joint session of Congress. 20 Sept. 2001, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

Hansel

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Zoolander

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Zoolander. Directed by Ben Stiller, Village Roadshow Productions/VH1 Films/NPV Entertinment/Red Hour Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2001.

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt

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Adams, Douglas. Quoted in "Lament for Douglas Adams," by Richard Dawkins. The Guardian, 13 May 2001.

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Adams, Douglas. Quoted in The Salmon of Doubt, written by Richard Dawkins, edited by Peter Guzzardi. William Heinemann/Pocket Books, 2002, epilogue.

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Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life... Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Gandalf

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Directed by Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema/WingNut Films, 2001.

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How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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When I go home people'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why, you some kinda war junkie?" I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the man next to you, and that's it. That's all it is.

Black Hawk Down

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Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001.

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And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you're seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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I know we're all going to die--there's three of us who are going to do something about it.

Thomas E. Burnett

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Phone call to his wife from Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

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Burnett, Thomas E. Stated on a phone call with his wife just before the plane he was on went down outside of Pittsburgh. 11 Sept. 2001.

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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Sotomayer, Sonia. Speech at the University of California, Berkeley. Annual Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture. 26 Oct. 2001, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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