"After multiple trips to Paris and being accused of participating in 'heinous' activities in regard to the state, I found my Romanian nationality revoked by 'presidential decree' in 1975. Because I hadn't asked for political asylum like everyone else, I had to live and travel with the infamous Nansen Passport from then on. This wasn't easy...I finally obtained my French citizenship in 1983."

-- Dumitru Tepeneag

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“I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters”
“Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?”
“Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.”

Source : Walter Martin, Ravi Zacharias (2003). “The Kingdom of the Cults”, p.10, Baker Books
“So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.”
“I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.”

Source : "The Gender Gap Rules 2012 Election" by Eleanor Smeal, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.
“Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.”
“After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.”

Source : Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.199, Vintage
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”

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