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Paddy Ashdown

"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."

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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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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."

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Amber Hurdle

"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

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Amber Hurdle

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

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"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

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"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."

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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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"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."
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"Politics is compromise."
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"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."
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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 can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads."
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"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
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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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"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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"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."
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