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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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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

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"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,Knew you not Pompey?"

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"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

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"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."

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"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."

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"Hatred is inveterate anger."

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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

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"All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it."

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"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."
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"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
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"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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"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."
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"I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads."
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"I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war."
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"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"
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"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
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