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Quotes by Statesman

"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
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Demosthenes
"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
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"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."
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"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
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David Lloyd George
"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
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"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
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"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."
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Akhenaton
"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."
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"With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history."
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"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."
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"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
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John Howard
"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
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"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."
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"If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people."
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Abu Bakr
"If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people."
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"Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul."
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Zhu Rongji
"Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul."
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"Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing."
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Moshe Sharett
"Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing."
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"Arabs respect only the language of force."
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Moshe Sharett
"Arabs respect only the language of force."
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"The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration."
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Hjalmar Branting
"The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration."
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"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
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Dean Acheson
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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Evita Peron
"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
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Angela Merkel
"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
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"It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow."
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"Ours is a non-violent war, It is Dharma YUDDHA."
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Sardar Patel
"Ours is a non-violent war, It is Dharma YUDDHA."
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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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"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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"There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world."
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Guy Verhofstadt
"There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world."
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"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
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Silvia Cartwright
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
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"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs."
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"I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets."
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Edmund Burke
"I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets."
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"We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization."
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Yitzhak Shamir
"We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization."
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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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"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
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Henry L. Stimson
"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
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"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
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Evita Peron
"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
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"For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward."
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Angela Merkel
"For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward."
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"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."
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George Canning
"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."
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"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
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Robert Jackson
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
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"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
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Henry A. Kissinger
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
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"No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament."
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Robert Walpole
"No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament."
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"This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."
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Harold Wilson
"This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."
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"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
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Brian Mulroney
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
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"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
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Wilfrid Laurier
"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
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"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."
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Janos Kadar
"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."
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"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."
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Nikita Khrushchev
"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."
Act,
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"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
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Winston Churchill
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
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"We need a common enemy to unite us."
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Condoleezza Rice
"We need a common enemy to unite us."
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"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
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"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."
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Fidel Castro
"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."
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"Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves."
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Henry L. Stimson
"Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves."
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"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
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Brian Mulroney
"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
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"Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles."
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Camillo di Cavour
"Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles."
Tax,
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"National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction."
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Jacques Chirac
"National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction."
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"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
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Edward F. Halifax
"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
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"A week is a long time in politics."
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Harold Wilson
"A week is a long time in politics."
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"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
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Daniel Webster
"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
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