"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"When people have a controversial opinion about an event or a prominent figure, it can significantly increase conflicts of interests that can result people to be socially excluded who don't share the same perspective as them. The way people can end conflicts of interests is to negotiate their conflicting views and unite in order to establish tranquility."

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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

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"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."

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"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

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"This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan."

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"I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself."

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"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

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"It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism."

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"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

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"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

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"A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones."

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"Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test."

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"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

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"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."

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