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Quotes by Statesman
"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."
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"We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area."
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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
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"You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting."
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"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky."
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
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"No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods."
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"I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to."
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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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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
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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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"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
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"I welcome challenges. I triumph on them, it helps me grow. Without the challenges that I have faced, I may not be where I am at all."
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"True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It's an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be."
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"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
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"Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation."
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"The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council."
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"Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards."
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"I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters."
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"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
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"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
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"What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow."
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"General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance."
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"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
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"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
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