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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."

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🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"Self-determination is now recognized as a principle of legitimacy underlying modern international law."

"When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime."

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away."

"I behold Thee, 0 Lord my God, in a kind of mental trance"

"And so the administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq."

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Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Politics

1939–2025

"Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world."

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

"The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance—nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question."

"Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?"

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🇵🇪Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Politics

1920–2020

"It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom."

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🇨🇺José Raúl Capablanca

"What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles."

"But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them."

"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."

"There will be no national flags or other kinds of flags designed to specify cross-strait relations inside or outside the offices because we are not foreign nations to each other."

"Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment. We face a direct existential threat."

"Italy as you know is the closest neighbour of both Tunisia and Libya so we are extremely concerned about the repercussions on the migratory situation in the southern Mediterranean."

"Every child and adult should have the skills and the tools to respond to the challenges of the world today and make the most of the opportunities that are available."

"Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle."

"Poetry cannot report the event, it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself."

"Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come."

"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."

"Martti Ahtisaari's Project Syndicate op/eds"

"Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far."

"Now appears the fourth stage. In this situation emerge the newer mechanisms, the fiduciary institutions, by which these dispersed stockholdings are at once more becoming concentrated."

"I mean, they have a guy like Dennis Ross at the White House now, who’s always been a part of the Israel lobby. They put him in charge of the whole Muslim world."

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