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Quotes by Statesman
"Commitment and co-operation to overcome barriers and difficulties, and determination to achieve the standards of the EU as well as NATO membership, are and have always been the principal target."
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"There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it."
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"I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries."
Will,
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"I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you."
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"So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in."
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"This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together."
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"Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger."
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"I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland."
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"With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes."
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"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam."
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"Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God."
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"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
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"As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death."
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"I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned."
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
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"The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime."
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"Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences."
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"They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land."
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"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
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"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
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"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built."
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"I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders."
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"When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world."
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"God blesses him who helps his brother."
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"To be a successful soldier or a politician, one must be able to suppress one's finer feelings and emotions."
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"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity."
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"History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all."
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"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
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"I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute."
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