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"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
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John Lubbock
"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
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Nelson Mandela
"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
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"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."
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Akhenaton
"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."
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"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go ."
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Evita Peron
"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go ."
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"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
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"It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism."
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Norman Tebbit
"It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism."
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"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."
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"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard."
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Colin Powell
"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard."
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"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."
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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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Tony Blair
"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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"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."
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Pericles
"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."
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"There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities."
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"What we wish, that we readily believe."
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Demosthenes
"What we wish, that we readily believe."
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"Great and good are seldom the same man."
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Winston Churchill
"Great and good are seldom the same man."
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"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."
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Colin Powell
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."
Ego,
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"It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change."
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Angela Merkel
"It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change."
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"It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement."
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"Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark, leave a positive legacy!"
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark, leave a positive legacy!"
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"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."
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Tony Blair
"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."
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"At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality."
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Angela Merkel
"At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality."
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"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
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"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
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John Morley
"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
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"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
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Edmund Burke
"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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Evita Peron
"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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"Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts."
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Kjell Magne Bondevik
"Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts."
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"What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink."
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"Experts often possess more data than judgment."
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Colin Powell
"Experts often possess more data than judgment."
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"After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war."
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Horst Koehler
"After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war."
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"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
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Dean Acheson
"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
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"If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night."
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Eamon de Valera
"If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night."
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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
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John Lubbock
"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
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"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
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Brian Mulroney
"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
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"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."
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Shimon Peres
"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."
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"A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse."
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Thabo Mbeki
"A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse."
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"Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions."
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Angela Merkel
"Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions."
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"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it."
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Hjalmar Branting
"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it."
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"A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow."
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"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."
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Lord Chesterfield
"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."
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"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs."
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"I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe."
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Eamon de Valera
"I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe."
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"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry."
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Harold Wilson
"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry."
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"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."
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Edward Everett
"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."
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"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."
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Edmund Burke
"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."
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"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head."
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David Lloyd George
"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head."
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"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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"As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?"
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Jacques Chirac
"As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?"
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"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."
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Edward F. Halifax
"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."
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"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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Edmund Burke
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
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Colin Powell
"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
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