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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
Sally Quinn
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Sally Quinn
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 7
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That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.
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One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are religious. They just don't like the form it takes.
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We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.
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Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.
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So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.
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Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.
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Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.
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When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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The important is not what you believe but how you behave.
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I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
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