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"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"

"The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward."

"Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do."

"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism " the tendencies of greed " the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust."

"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."
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"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."

"Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance."

"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."

"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism."

"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."

"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."

"It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought."

"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
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