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Quotes by Statesman
"Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front."
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"Success comes to those who dare to dream and work tirelessly to turn those dreams into reality."
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"In the realm of progress, unity and discipline are twin pillars, essential for a nation's ascent."
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"If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country."
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"Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan."
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"Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference."
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"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent."
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"South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination."
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"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon."
Will,
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"We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union."
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"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
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"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."
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"On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government."
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"However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy."
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"Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago."
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"Globalization is a fact of economic life."
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"The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities."
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"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."
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"In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
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"When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom."
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"Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation."
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"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
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"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
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"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it."
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"The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom."
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"Intentions count in your actions."
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"General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance."
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"There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time."
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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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"While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them."
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"Women have a role to play in global development."
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