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Paddy Ashdown

"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."

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"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."

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Donna Grant

"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."

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Donna Grant

"Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice."

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Donna Grant

"If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!"

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Donna Grant

"Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger."

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Donna Grant

"Control your "anger because it is just ONE Letter away from "danger."

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Donna Grant

"But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself."

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Donna Grant

"Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused."

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Donna Grant

"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

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Donna Grant

"The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes."

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Donna Grant

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

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Paddy Ashdown
"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."

War

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Paddy Ashdown
"Politics is compromise."

Politics

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Paddy Ashdown
"I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war."

War

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Paddy Ashdown
"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."

Agreement

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Paddy Ashdown
"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."

Politics

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Paddy Ashdown
"I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads."

People

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Paddy Ashdown
"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."

People

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Paddy Ashdown
"It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them."

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Paddy Ashdown
"It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations."

War

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Paddy Ashdown
"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."

Press

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