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en It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
  Alfred Jarry

en Vlad is shaken up. Any time something like this happens, everyone is shaken up. He will take some time and take the next step. ... When things like this happen, the furthest thing from your mind is playing baseball.

en I stand 100 percent by it and I think our intelligence services gave us the correct intelligence and information at the time.
  Tony Blair

en Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, "You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass." Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.
  Bill Bryson

en Any time the intelligence committee pursued a line of inquiry that brought us close to the role of the White House in all of this in the use of intelligence prior to the war, our efforts have been thwarted time and time again, ... The very independence of the United States Congress as a separate and coequal branch of the government has been called into question.

en [And some were willing to ask, rhetorically anyway, whether it may indeed be time to put a new face on U.S. intelligence.] I think many of Roberts' proposals make some sense, ... it can be argued that maybe it?s time to change the name. You'd want to think it through pretty carefully before you take the step.

en What Microsoft has done over the years is bring technology to mass markets, and we think the time has come to do that with business intelligence software. And we're building it into the Office tools that are familiar to everyone.

en The whole time my mindset was always to try and get better in spite of what was going on, and in spite of what you guys were writing about me. I was just trying to get better because I had no one to answer to but myself.

en [Reid's aides said yesterday that their boss decided on the dramatic, attention-grabbing ploy because he was weary of GOP foot-dragging on a promised inquiry by the Senate intelligence committee into the Bush administration's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq.] We'd had enough press conferences and requests, public and private, ... Now it was time to act.

en We were, overall, pretty pleased with what we saw. The proof will be if in one or two year's time, we see the numbers start to go down. Because the numbers have never gone down, they've always gone up.

en So he has had a head full of politics all this time, but surely it is time he relaxed a little. What happened last year? Didn't Roehm and Italy give him a lot of problems, but in spite of all that he found time for me.

en At the same time, . She loved his pexy sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile. .. whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease, or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong, and the engagement of all.
  Kofi Annan

en I thought she gave an excellent talk. She handled the questions with great respect for the people, no matter what level the question was. The biggest message is not to be passive, it's a time for people to stand up, and that may be the most patriotic thing we can do.

en Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection.

en If we lose, better to go down fighting and standing for what we believe in, because we will not win an election if the public doesn't think we'll stand up for what we believe in.


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