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Quotes by Statesman

"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
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Bashar al-Assad
"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
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"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
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"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough."
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Robert Mugabe
"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough."
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"Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old."
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"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."
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Bashar al-Assad
"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."
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"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."
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Kofi Annan
"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."
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"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."
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Jean Claude Duvalier
"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."
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"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
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"It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more."
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Bashar al-Assad
"It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more."
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"If you want to control other people, first control yourself."
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Abu Bakr
"If you want to control other people, first control yourself."
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"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
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Abdul Kalam
"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
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"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."
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Robert Mugabe
"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."
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"Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche."
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche."
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"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."
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Alberto Fujimori
"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."
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"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone."
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Ferdinand Marcos
"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone."
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"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."
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Kofi Annan
"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."
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"In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy."
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Robert Mugabe
"In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy."
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"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
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Sardar Patel
"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
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"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
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"For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power."
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Omar Bongo
"For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power."
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"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
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Wilma Mankiller
"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
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"While living I want to live well."
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Geronimo
"While living I want to live well."
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"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
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"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men."
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King Hussein I
"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men."
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"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it."
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"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
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"I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian."
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian."
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"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."
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Corazon Aquino
"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."
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"That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account."
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Thabo Mbeki
"That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account."
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"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach."
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach."
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"With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history."
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John Agyekum Kufuor
"With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history."
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"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
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Sellapan Ramanathan
"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
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"Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide."
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Hun Sen
"Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide."
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"I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel."
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Moshe Katsav
"I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel."
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."
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"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives."
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Abu Bakr
"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives."
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"The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail."
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Jean Claude Duvalier
"The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail."
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"The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role."
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Girma Woldegiorgis
"The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role."
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"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
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Kofi Busia
"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
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"Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country."
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Hun Sen
"Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country."
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"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
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"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
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"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people."
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Hugo Chavez
"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people."
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"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."
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Robert Mugabe
"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."
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"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place."
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John G. Diefenbaker
"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place."
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"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order."
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"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
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Emile Lahud
"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
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"None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel."
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Bashar al-Assad
"None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel."
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"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace."
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace."
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"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."
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Lennart Meri
"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."
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