"Our Pakistan elites are spoiled by permanent foreign aid and therefore find it difficult to change course. Pakistan needs someone who stands up and says: Fundamentalism is bad, capitalism is good. This region harbors enormous potential. Pakistan could become the hub for the energy that is transported from Central Asia to South Asia. That could change the whole region."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Ahmed Rashid

#Energy Quotes #Spoiled Quotes #Aids Quotes

“Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!”
“Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.”

Source : "Salazar: speeches, notes, reports, theses, articles and interviews, 1909-1955: Anthology" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Editorial Vanguarda, (p. 212), 1955.
“I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.”
“I hold back parts of my life and experiences... I don't want to share anything just for the sake of sharing and exposing myself, but if something feels right and I feel inspired by the situations or moment I'll definitely share it. There are so many stories and experiences I have not shared, and I don't feel compelled to.”

Source : Source: elitedaily.com
“I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.”
“If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.”
“Beauty always has something remote.”

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