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Quotes by Statesman
"Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing."
37
"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around."
37
"Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions."
37
"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one."
37
"Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."
37
"Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."
37
"Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you."
37
"Always give your best, today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark."
37
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
37
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
36
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
36
"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."
36
"Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability."
36
"With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated."
36
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
36
"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."
36
"The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now."
36
"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
36
"Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God."
36
"There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated."
36
"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."
36
"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics."
36
"When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door."
36
"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."
36
"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."
36
"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."
36
"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves."
36
"Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living."
36
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