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“U Žepču kažu da ti niko »nafaku« ne može uzeti, a u Sarajevu opet vele da niko sudbini umaći ne može. U Žepču ti »nafaka«, u Sarajevu sudbina. Ima, čini mi se Šolohov knjigu »Čovjekova sudbina«... (To se ja dvoumim zato što je u SSSR-u sudbina ukinuta.) Bio je i film. Kad ga gledaš plačeš kao da je »Mama Huanita«... Ali sve je tanko... Postoje atomi, to je naučno dokazano, samo atomi, nigdje nikoga... Ali i to je tanko...”

Author:Patrick Neate

“U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.”

Has Beens Animal Middle Citizens East Flight Japan Companion Civilized Middle East Fleeing Evacuation

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.”

Ifs Looks States United Company United States International Penetration

Author:Bill Gates

“U.N. officials said today they desperately need $7 billion to help people cope with disasters, but they're having a hard time getting people to send rescue money. Here's what the UN should do: Invest in bad mortgages, run a bank into the ground, give yourself a bonus, get some spa treatments and, in no time, the government will send you $750 billion.”

People Needs Giving Should Said Hard Helping Government Running Today Billions Disaster Officials Hard Times Treatment Rescue Mortgage Bonus Having A Hard Time Spas

Author:Jay Leno

“U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this?”

Found Missing Weapons Empty Asking Iraq Chemicals Sean Inspectors

Author:Jay Leno

“U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.”

“U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.”

Important Faces Quality Products Safe Trade Including Restriction Beef High Quality Montana

Author:Max Baucus

“U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.”

Years Military Reactions Administration Putin Analysts Expenditures Aggressiveness Militancy Russian Military

Author:Noam Chomsky

Source: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.”

Government Middle Security Policy Needed Importance Critical East Objectives Pursue Foreign Policy Middle East National Security Assistance Flexibility

Author:Richard Armitage

“U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.”

Want Making Money Admirable

Author:Gore Vidal

“U.S. commitment to NATO and our commitments our European partners is not an act of charity. It's not a gift that we give to our European partners. It's actually part of our security, as well, and their security is our security.”

Giving Wells Security Commitment Charity Partners Nato Acts Of Charity

Author:Derek Chollet

“U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.”

World Company Investment

Author:John Bruton

“U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.”

Half Company Europe Profit Rely

Author:John Bruton

“U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.”

War Responsibility Constitution Congress

Author:Marvin Kalb

Source: The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed

“U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.”

Constitution Islam Fundamentalist

Author:Pamela Geller

“U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.”

Country Duty Products Benefits Access Corn Corny Tariffs

Author:John Shimkus

“U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.”

Ifs Wells Doe Action Certain Social Goal Class Clear Records Dangerous Policy Drug Abuse Historical Currents Technique Substance Reducing Substance Abuse Social Control Drug Policy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.”

Energy Economic Prosperity Tied Affordable Availability Economic Prosperity

Author:Cliff Stearns

“U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these day. It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year. I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.”

Years Government Lasts Levels Mistake Security Policy Huge Highest Terrorism These Days Foreign Policy Last Year September Solo September 11

Author:Gary McKinnon

“U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.”

Wells Groups Economic Policy Areas Foreign Policy Ethnic Groups

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“U.S. Government has said they are now going to go after the terrorist's electronic banking system. You know what they should do? They should transfer bin Laden's funds to my bank. They'd mess up his deposits, screw up his statement and nickel and dime him to death with service charges.”

Knows Should Said Government Terrorist Statements Mess Fund Screws Banking Bin Laden Transfers Dimes Screw Ups Deposits Nickels Banking System

Author:Jay Leno

“U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul”

Trying Has Beens Law Weapons Training Iraq National Guard

Author:David Ignatius

“U.S. has certainly been wanting this to happen since both Japan and Korea are longtime allies of the U.S. and this estranged relationship has prevented better cooperation.”

Happens Japan Allies Cooperation Korea

Author:Elise Hu

“U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.”

Important Lost Greater Future Battle Predictions Pearls Harbors

Author:Edward Teller

“U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.”

Europe Institutions Backgrounds

Author:Noam Chomsky

“U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.”

Century Taxes Concepts Agency Internals Economist Revenue 19th Century

Author:Robert Breault

“U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.”

Might Action Courses Goal Security Policy Degrees Understood Fairs International Privilege Primaries Protected Preservation Fifth Exploits Accuracy

Author:Noam Chomsky

Source: The Culture of Terrorism

“U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.”

Thinking Government Policy Journalist Courageous Subversive Unpatriotic

Author:Robert Fisk

“U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.”

Men Mean Politics Realizing Hours Wealth Leader Economy Industry Research Labor Direct Bases Competition Liberalism Buying Wages Automation Multiplying Buying Power

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”

Ifs Thinking Should Leader Plans Safe Terrorist Cuban

Author:Fidel Castro

“U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.”

Wells Action Lasts Mistake Military Iraq Work Out Last Time Military Action

Author:Alan Grayson

“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.”

“U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.”

Weapons Mass Destruction Iraq Expected Officials Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Garage Wmd Wmds In Iraq

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.”

Men Has Beens War Bigs Games President Party He Man Hills Servant Host Troops Founders Hunters Bulls Civics Juan Family Man Moose Theodore American War Spanish American War

Author:Zig Ziglar

“U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights.”

Want Trying Firsts Next Rights Crime Republican Democrat Aliens Voting Plot Illegal Conspiracy Accused Right To Vote Illegal Aliens

Author:Argus Hamilton

“U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.”

Knows Order Next Movement Jokes Soldier Track Passing Passings Acquaintance

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.”

Looks Has Beens Problem Happens Able Past Careers Issues Ice Performing Funding Make It Happen

Author:Apolo Ohno

“U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.”

Men May Term Decision Clear Dangerous Citizens Machines Safety Fellows Court Seven Supreme Corporate Republic Conspiracy Supreme Court November Decree

Author:Jim Marrs

“U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.”

Body Week Surgeons

Author:Marty Makary

“U.S. wrestling is more of a scrambling style where guys take a lot of risks. You could watch a match in the states and see a score of 18-12. There is going to be a lot of action, transitions and guys going back and forth and trading points.”

States Action Guy Watches Risk Style Score Transition Wrestling Trading Back And Forth

Author:Gilbert Melendez

“U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.”

Needs Relation China Lawyer

Author:Abigail Washburn

“U.S.A. is the speech of the people”

People Speech

Author:John Dos Passos

“U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.”

Should Song Band Should Have Life Experience

Author:John Lydon

“U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds ... they're up working when everyone else is sleeping. They're simply all great at what they do.”

Belief Sleep Bird Folks Early Bird

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.”

Feelings Emotional Originals Species Colour Originality Terrain

Author:Bono

“U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.”

Knows Writing Helping Seems Song Accidents

Author:Bono

“U2 makes music for guys who have ears and can hear. But U2 makes concert imagery for guys who need visual stimulation to help push kidney stones through their urethras.”

Humor Music Ears Hearing Concerts Hear U2 Kidney Stone

Author:Jarod Kintz

Source: Powdered Saxophone Music

“U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.”

Wife Involved My Wife Aids Ethiopia

Author:Bono

“U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.”

Knows Best Work

Author:Bono

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