"I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries."

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Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

Mahathir Mohamad

#Country Quotes #Should Quotes #Relevant Quotes

“Every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life, each time an individual chooses a new option, that person then becomes a living bridge for all the others who choose to follow in that person's path.”
“The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc.”

Source : "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.
“Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.63, Vintage
“I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.”
“He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.”
“A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.”
“... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.”

Source : Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media
“All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.”

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