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Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

~Bruce Schneier

Topics: Air Air Travel Anymore Attack Attacks Deaths Decades Everyone Fly Including Making Next Only Ourselves Plane Real Resulted Scare Successful Survive Survived Terrorism Travel Which Worry

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W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: Capitalist Character Decades Discredit Efforts Founder Naacp Platform Reputation Two University Used Washington T

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In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: Crime Decades Explosion Exponential Families Fatherless Illiteracy Increase Since Witnessed Youth

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Dubois, later in his life, would join the Communist party and renounce his American citizenship. His 'integration at all costs' message would, decades later, continue to influence the community's self-perception.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: American Citizenship Communist Communist Party Community Continue Costs Decades His Influence Integration Join Later Life Message Party Renounce Would

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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

~Cameron Mackintosh

Topics: Decades Exceptional Having Know Many Money Position

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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

~Cameron Mackintosh

Topics: Always Cent Costs Decades Exceptional Get Having Know Less Many Money Per Position Production Put Shows Trying

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My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to appreciate my surname and the history that came with it. Along the way, I would add an 'e' to Carol and acquire several more surnames.

~Carole King

Topics: Acquire Add Along Appreciate Birth Came Carol Decades Five History Joan Klein Me More Name Several Take Way Would

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Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

~Carre Otis

Topics: Brought Decades Downright Granted Had Inadvertently Industry Insights Joys Lives Many Me Modeling Motherhood New New Perspective Perspective Played Role Spent Women Young

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By searching the sky now, me and other asteroid hunters hope to give us the early warning - ideally decades - that we need. But that strategy of focused searching hasn't stopped people from thinking about what we might do if an asteroid was on its way toward us.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: About Asteroid Decades Early Focused Give Hope Hunters Ideally Me Might Need Now Other People Searching Sky Stopped Strategy Thinking Toward Us Warning Way

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I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Actually Any Austen Been Decades Fortunate Having Jane Jane Austen Myself Never New Novels Read Several Sparing Thirty Thus Unhappiness Until

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