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Quotes by Statesman
"I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief."
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"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."
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"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life."
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
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"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
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"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."
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"A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy."
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"Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair."
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"Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied."
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"Knowledge is the life of the mind."
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"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant."
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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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"During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization."
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"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it."
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."
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"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."
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"It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991."
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"I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet."
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"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing."
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"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
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"That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time."
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"Unity breeds strength, and discipline forges resilience - the recipe for overcoming any challenge."
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"I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad."
Life,
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"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."
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"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
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"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
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"I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms."
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"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch."
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"Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy."
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"When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation."
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"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."
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"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."
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"Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy."
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