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Quotes by Statesman

"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."

"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."

"If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere."

"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."

"When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height."

"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."

"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."

"Prayer is the maternity where ideas are born."

"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."

"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."

"Women have a role to play in global development."

"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."
Luck,

"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."

"Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes."

"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."

"Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest."

"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."

"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."

"The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history."

"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then."

"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."

"Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway."

"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."

"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."

"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."
Land,

"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."

"Your vibe creates your tribe."
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