"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."

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Bashar al-Assad

#Mold Quotes #Interest Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate”
“It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.”
“I have several children who I'm turning into killers. Wait till they grow up.”
“People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz”

Source : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
“You donâ€™t return peopleâ€™s smilesâ€”itâ€™s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.”
“The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn't do, an action they did or didn't support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.”
“There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.”
“Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Nicklaus from Jan 14, 2014

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