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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"

"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

"You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process."

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country."

"For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood."
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"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."

"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."

"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."
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