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“Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.”
Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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“This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.”
Source : "World Twenty20: Mike Hussey and Australia pickpocket Pakistan" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010. 
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“If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?”
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“It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?”
Source : "The art of political euphemisms", news.bbc.co.uk. August 5, 2008.
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“An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.”
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“Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks and he reads and he becomes the head of the American Zionist movement after having previously been a secular Jew in this amazing intellectual evolution.”
Source : Source: www.slate.com
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“Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.”
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“Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from...”
