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Pain is always preferable to numbness.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Emptiness
Numbness
Pain
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Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
American History
Blunders
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I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
War
Chechnya
Zone
Life My Life Never
Before
Number
My Life
Terrifying
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So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
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Outside World
Polygamy
Anew
Flourish
Mormon
Ropes
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My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.
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Asia
Decided
Europe
Father
Across
Chronic
Suffered
Road
Trip
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Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.
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Available
Homicide
Passion
Category
Immediately
Likely
Quick
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If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Causes
Hydraulic Fracturing
Problem
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What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Next
Trying
Volatility
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As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Cia
Diplomats
Journalist
Stunned
Stupid
Avoid
Good I Am Country
Grasp
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History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Butterfly
Decision
Wings
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Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Asia
Disease
Latin
Latin America
Memories
Newspapers
Armchair
Evenings
Fathers
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In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Children
Colorado
Grows
Including
Self Sufficient
Teaching
Variety
Vegetables
Wide
Yield
Fruits
Held
Mormon
Striving
Teachings
Wide Variety
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The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'
Scott Anderson / Novelist
East
Middle East
Wartime
World War I
War Peace Great
Allied
Carried
Largely
Principally
Region
War Effort
World War
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Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Dividends
Drivers
Father
Haughty
Notorious
Paid
Selling
Soldier
Vegetables
Anybody
Border
Existed
Guards
Ladies
Smiles
Soldiers
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Men
Fighting
Military
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The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Closest
Clouds
Polygamy
Secrecy
Spread
Charge
Denying
Disciples
Founder
Joseph
Mormons
Principle
Revealed
Rumors
Shared
Smith
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The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Certain
Childhood
Detachment
Different Cultures
Moving
Self Sufficient
Shyness
Timidity
Childhood World Me
Bred
Constantly
Cultures
Explore
Extraordinarily
Inhabit
Manifested
Outsider
Rather
Truly
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Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
War
Christian
Religious
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