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Quotes by Statesman
"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."
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"It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake."
39
"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."
39
"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
39
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
39
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
39
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
39
"One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone."
39
"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks."
39
"The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business."
39
"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet."
39
"Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are."
39
"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline."
39
"My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore."
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."
39
"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
War,
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"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
39
"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."
39
"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."
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"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."
39
"Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did."
39
"It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change."
39
"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
39
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
39
"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."
39
"Certain signs precede certain events."
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"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."
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"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."
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