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Quotes by Statesman
"I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler."
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"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."
31
"National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services."
31
"Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist."
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"We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face."
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"We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way."
31
"We, too, must change as circumstances evolve."
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"Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed."
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"But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries."
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"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."
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"There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming."
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"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar."
30
"Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature."
30
"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them."
30
"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."
30
"I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government."
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"Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay."
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"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard."
30
"Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail."
30
"We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe."
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"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage."
30
"My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions."
30
"He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness."
30
"Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out."
30
"You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable."
30
"The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands."
30
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
30
"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship."
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"I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it."
30
"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
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"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."
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