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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: May 31, 1939 (age 85)
Bio: Terence Hardy "Terry" Waite is an English humanitarian and author.
Known for:
  1. Taken on Trust (1993)
  2. Travels with a primate (2000)
  3. The Voyage of the Golden Handshake (2015)
  4. Wysheid Uit Die Psalms (1997)

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