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We should never remain hostages of our past.
Emmerson Mnangagwa /
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
Ingrid Betancourt / Politician
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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Lucan / Poet
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Son
Wife
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Sons
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In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
Alberto Fujimori / Politician
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Suffering
Terrorist
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Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.
Stephen Rodrick /
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I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Brian Cox / Physicist
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Nine
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If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault / Journalist
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People
Prejudice
Right Thing
Will
Thing
Do The Right Thing The Right Thing
Do The Right Thing People Will
Become
Do The Right Thing
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon / Former Lord Chancellor
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Children
Fortune
Given
Mischief
Virtue
Wife
He
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In Syria, for some time, they have been trading hostages for a number of things: for weapons, for money, for political influence, and for favors.
Christopher Voss /
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Syria
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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
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We should refuse to settle for a deal that fails to secure the release of American hostages and paves Iran's path toward realizing its nuclear weapon ambitions.
Thom Tillis /
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Iran
Nuclear
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Release
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Fails
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Twenty-five million people who live in North Korea are denied freedom in every respect of their lives. In short, they are hostages. Imagine 25 million hostages.
Min Jin Lee / Writer
Denied
North Korea
Twenty Five
Freedom Respect People
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
Ted Deutch /
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Retirement
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Social Security
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Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.
Alcee Hastings / U.s. Representative
Borders
Civilians
Goal
Israel
Israeli
Rockets
Soldier
Attacks
Hostages
Legitimate
Showering
Soldiers
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw / Playwright
Expensive
Fortune
Giving
Wife
Writing
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Lets
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In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Operations
Yemen
Al
Component
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President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.
Nigel Hamilton / Biographer
Carter
Iran
Jimmy
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Pardoned
Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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'Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane's feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows.
Ruth Glick / Writer
Betrayed
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Blossom
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The Obama administration, seemingly without any concern or worry, funneled money around U.S. law through foreign central banks to provide a state sponsor of terrorism with $400 million in blood money for American hostages.
Jeff Duncan /
Administration
Concern
Terrorism
Banks
Central
Hostages
Obama Administration
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Sponsor
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At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.
Alberto Fujimori / Politician
Foreign Affairs
Silent
Threatening
Affairs
Foreign
Hostages
Measures
Minister
Several
Stake
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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.
Terry Waite / Author
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Exit
Pieces
Sincerity
Together
Agreeing
Captive
Freeing
Slowly
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The first to grasp how sensitive Israeli public opinion was on the issue of hostages and M.I.A.'s - and therefore what a powerful weapon abduction could be - was Ahmed Jibril, the leader of a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Ronen Bergman /
Israeli
Liberation
Palestine
Public Opinion
Sensitive
Faction
Grasp
Hostages
Weapon
Powerful Weapon
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The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
Ahmed Chalabi / Iraqi Politician
Casualties
Civilian Casualties
Hostage Crisis
Issues
Loss
Release
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Life Work Must
Life Work People
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
Lady Gregory / Dramatist
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Ireland
Rising
Setting
Son
Streams
Sun
Languages
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Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey.
Gideon Raff / Film Director
Journey
Coming Home
Demand
Israel
Release
Steep
Ending
Happy Ending
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Price
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Since taking office, President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that bringing Americans home is a top priority for his administration. The president and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo understand the terrible toll terrorist networks and pariah states like Iran take on our American hostages and their families.
Robert C. O'brien /
Iran
Mike
Secretary
Terrorist
Networks
Hostages
President Trump
Repeatedly
Toll
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