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Doris Lessing Quotes: September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
         

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.


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