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"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."
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Edward F. Halifax
"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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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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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Robert Jackson
"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
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"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it."
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Akhenaton
"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it."
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"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."
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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."
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"Without tact you can learn nothing."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"Without tact you can learn nothing."
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"And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating."
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Jim Bolger
"And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating."
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"If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere."
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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
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Lord Chesterfield
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
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"When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height."
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"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."
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"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."
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Vaclav Klaus
"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."
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"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."
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Winston Churchill
"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."
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"Prayer is the maternity where ideas are born."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Prayer is the maternity where ideas are born."
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"Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service."
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Chen Shui-bian
"Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service."
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"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
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Henry A. Kissinger
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
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"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it."
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Colin Powell
"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it."
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"Women have a role to play in global development."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Women have a role to play in global development."
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"We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that."
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that."
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"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
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Angela Merkel
"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
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"We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support."
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Hjalmar Branting
"We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support."
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"I am a citizen of the world."
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Demosthenes
"I am a citizen of the world."
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"Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes."
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Romano Prodi
"Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes."
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"Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions."
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Vincente Fox
"Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions."
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"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
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Lord Chesterfield
"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
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"Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest."
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Abu Bakr
"Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest."
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"Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies."
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Tran Duc Luong
"Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies."
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"Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression."
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Thabo Mbeki
"Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression."
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"The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history."
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Harold Wilson
"The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history."
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"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then."
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Angela Merkel
"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then."
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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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Ibrahim Babangida
"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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"That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest."
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Charles Tupper
"That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest."
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"Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry."
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"We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence."
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Hjalmar Branting
"We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence."
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"Damn your principles! Stick to your party."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"Damn your principles! Stick to your party."
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"It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890."
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Charles Tupper
"It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890."
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"Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families."
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Colin Powell
"Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families."
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"I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all."
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Jim Bolger
"I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all."
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"As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway."
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Gerhard Schroder
"As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway."
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"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
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Edmund Burke
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
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"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
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"For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications."
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"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
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Robert Grosseteste
"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
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"Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants."
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Yuri Andropov
"Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants."
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"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
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Kim Campbell
"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
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"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."
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Lord Chesterfield
"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."
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"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies."
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Warren Christopher
"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies."
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"Your vibe creates your tribe."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Your vibe creates your tribe."
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"We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement."
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen
"We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement."
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