Als Quotes - Page 7

• Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia.

  David Petraeus

  Iran, Iraq, Training

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, David Howell Petraeus, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (2008). “The status of the war and political developments in Iraq: joint hearing before the Committee on Armed Services meeting jointly with Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held, September 10, 2007”, Government Printing Office

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• As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back into Iraq.

  John McCain

  Moving, Taken, Iraq

  "John McCain on Iraq, Iran and the Middle East from Amman, Jordan". "The Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

  John McCain

  Party, Agents, Intolerance

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2008.

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• I can tell you squat about Islam. I don’t know anything about it. But I know a goddamn lot about al Qaeda and I want them all to burn in hell.

  Frank Miller

  Needs, Hell, Squat

  "Frank Miller: Proud To Be Ignorant" by Alyssa Rosenberg, thinkprogress.org. October 27, 2011.

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• You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.

  Robert Jordan

  Thinking, Light, Sometimes

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.413, Macmillan

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• Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Stones, Mules

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• It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.

  Robert Jordan

  Battle, Done

  "The Great Hunt". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.

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• Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.

  Robert Jordan

  Sleep, Sleep Well, Wells

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.392, Macmillan

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• "Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Kings, Mean

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 197), 1998.

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• Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

  William Langland

  Apples, Piers, Hunger

  c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)

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• Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Expression, Intuition

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• Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

  Uwe Boll

  Nice, Sides, Intellect

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• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Feel Good, Actors, Feels

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• When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, America, Difficult

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.

  Jay Leno

  Political, Experts, Hey

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• There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Isis, Two

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• (The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

  Jeremiah Wright

  Color, Names, United States

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• And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.

  Jason Whitlock

  Brother, Self, Common Sense

  "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL". Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.

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• Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Evil, Soul

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

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• The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.

  Ilana Mercer

  Association

  "Shafting Boys". WorldNetDaily.com, January 27, 2006.

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• I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war.

  Eric Holder

  War, Thinking, Fit

  "American Morning" with Paula Zahn, transcripts.cnn.com. January 28, 2002.

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• All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here.

  George Galloway

  Country, People, President

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• I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.

  Colin Powell

  America, Focus, President

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• The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Egypt, Iran

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

  Steve Gleason

  Believe, Technology, Reality

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