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The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: According Agency Arrest Back Bin Central Channel Countries Custody Direct Early Employing Former Government Him Intelligence Offered Officials Place President Saudi Spring Sudan Three

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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

~Bear Grylls

Topics: Challenge Civilians Former Made Open Reserve Still Tends Up Want Who

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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

~Bela Lugosi

Topics: Actor Class Community Former Ignorance Kept Lies Means Ruling Ruling Class Various

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The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Biggest Call Clothes Current Downside Economists Example Former Hockey Hockey Player Job Michael Nobel Nobel Prize Player Princeton Prize Purpose Suit Taught Uncomfortable Wear Wearing Winner Work

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The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

~Ben Macintyre

Topics: Account Agent Been Broad Chairman Committee Cross Deception Defiance Double Former His John Known Official Operation Outlines Published Secrecy Since Sir

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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.

~Ben Shapiro

Topics: Character End Enemies Fiction Find Former Himself His Horses Hunting Man Massive Out Photographs Poisoning Putin Radioactive Riding Running Soviet Stages Themselves Thug Tigers Wrong

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We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will help in the development of their and our economy.

~Benigno Aquino Iii

Topics: Communities Development Economy Emergency Employment Established Former Help Jobs Local Our President Program Provide Revive Will

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When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.

~Bennet Omalu

Topics: Attack Before Began Behavior Bizarre Brain Center Death Disorder Fall File Former He Heart His Knew Long Mike More Pittsburgh Read Reports Some Sort Steep Suffered Suspected Television Than Victim

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There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

~Bernard Sumner

Topics: Check Choices Deal Former Go Goes Life Like Only Out People Two Wrong You

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Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.

~Bernie Sanders

Topics: Al Amendment Cap Card Credit Credit Card Former Interest Interest Rates Offered Percent Rates Senator

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