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Quotes by Leader

"If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide."

"My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?"

"People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top."

"People who are serving in villages should think- here is my opportunity to do something transformative during my tenure & serve my village."

"God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful."

"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."

"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."

"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."

"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."

"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."

"The people reposed faith in us and that is why this development work has been able to take place."

"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

"A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it."

"Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier."

"War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war."

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

"For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election."

"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions."

"I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any."

"We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue."

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well."

"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless."

"The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north."

"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."

"It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses."

"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."

"The army is the true nobility of our country."

"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do."

"We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides."
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