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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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"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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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."

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"Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions."

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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

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"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

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"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."

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"With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!"

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"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

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"In your winter you deny your spring."

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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

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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 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'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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"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
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"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
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