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Quotes by Statesman

"Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one."
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Johannes Rau
"Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one."
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"Let sleeping dogs lie."
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Robert Walpole
"Let sleeping dogs lie."
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"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
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Shimon Peres
"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
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"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
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"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish."
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Demosthenes
"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish."
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"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
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Henry L. Stimson
"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
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"You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days."
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Charles Tupper
"You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days."
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"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."
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Henry Clay
"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."
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"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."
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Nikita Khrushchev
"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."
Act,
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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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Winston Churchill
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
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John Morley
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
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"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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Nelson Mandela
"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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"I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems."
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Angela Merkel
"I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems."
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"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."
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Abdul Kalam
"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."
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"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
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Nelson Mandela
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
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"As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself."
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Hjalmar Branting
"As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself."
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"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."
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Tony Blair
"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."
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"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."
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Robert Grosseteste
"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."
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"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out."
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"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."
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Vladimir Putin
"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."
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"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."
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Madeleine Albright
"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."
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"What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible."
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Cao Cao
"What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible."
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"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean."
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Henry Clay
"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean."
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"To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama."
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Junichiro Koizumi
"To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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Edmund Burke
"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?"
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Colin Powell
"Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?"
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"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."
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John Lubbock
"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."
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"Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors."
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Condoleezza Rice
"Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors."
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"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
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Fidel Castro
"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
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"You know, the country is basically peaceful."
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Paul Bremer
"You know, the country is basically peaceful."
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"India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people."
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Manmohan Singh
"India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people."
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"It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again."
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Colin Powell
"It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again."
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"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."
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Anwar Sadat
"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."
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"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable."
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Philip Stanhope
"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable."
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"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber."
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Moshe Sharett
"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber."
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"Free Tibet before free trade."
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Zhu Rongji
"Free Tibet before free trade."
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"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."
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Colin Powell
"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
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Winston Churchill
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
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"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others."
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"The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands."
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Robert Grosseteste
"The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands."
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"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."
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Abdul Kalam
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."
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"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
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Moshe Katsav
"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
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"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
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Lord Chesterfield
"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
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"All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America."
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Nikita Khrushchev
"All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America."
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"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past."
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"The responsibility to shape the destiny of a nation rests on the shoulders of its citizens; each one contributing to the collective progress."
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Sardar Patel
"The responsibility to shape the destiny of a nation rests on the shoulders of its citizens; each one contributing to the collective progress."
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"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
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Colin Powell
"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
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"If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography."
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Mackenzie King
"If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography."
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"A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests."
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Aristide Briand
"A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests."
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"You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain."
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Stanley Baldwin
"You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain."
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