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Quotes by Statesman
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
58
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
57
"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."
57
"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work."
57
"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."
57
"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."
57
"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."
57
"Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy."
57
"To be a successful soldier or a politician, one must be able to suppress one's finer feelings and emotions."
57
"Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!"
57
"We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few."
57
"I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned."
57
"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."
56
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
56
"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."
56
"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement."
56
"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
56
"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."
56
"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
56
"And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion."
56
"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
56
"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them."
56
"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
56
"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you."
56
"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
56
"Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message."
56
"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard."
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