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Quotes by Statesman
"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."
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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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"The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction."
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"As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us."
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"Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service."
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"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
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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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"Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."
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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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"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."
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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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"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
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"One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors."
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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."
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"I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors."
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"I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan."
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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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"The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise."
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"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime."
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"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."
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"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
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"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
Ego,
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"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."
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"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."
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"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach."
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"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."
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"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
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"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
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"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
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"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
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"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
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"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."
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