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Quotes by Statesman
"Knowledge is the life of the mind."
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"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence."
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"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."
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"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
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"I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces."
Will,
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"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
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"It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces."
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"The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation."
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"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."
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"Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend."
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"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
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"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
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"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
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"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
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"We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people."
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"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."
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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."
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"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."
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"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life."
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"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."
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"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."
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"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."
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"But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests."
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"If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how and what we ought to admire; and if we cannot arrive at this combination of admiration with knowledge, rather to believe that we are dull, than that the rest of the world has been imposed on."
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"The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her."
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"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."
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"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
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"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."
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"My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could."
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"In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred."
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"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
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"I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject."
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"Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for."
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"Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy."
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"FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful."
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"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality."
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"A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away."
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