Quotable quote?

[Wilson Gray]

Quoted in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, 3/11/07, in re
arguments against the setting up of a new, Soviet-style (my
chracterization) "domestic intelligence service" and attributed to
William J. Bratton:

"If the problem before Sept. 11, 2001, was that the right hand didn't
know what the left hand was doing, how would a third hand help?"
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-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                                      -Sam'l Clemens

"Experience" is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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