"O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake."

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Source : Opening speech during the 2500th anniversary of Cyrus' founding of the Persian Empire, October 12, 1971.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'”
“No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.”
“They're not chicks. They're ducks.”

Source : Lauren Myracle (2009). “Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks”, p.204, Penguin
“Everybody f-king does it. I suppose I can't say 'everybody' because I don't know for sure, but come on...It's just the tiniest sprinkle of Botox twice a year. I think most women do 10 units, but that freezes the face and you can't move it. This is just one unit, and it's just sprinkled here and there to take the edge off...Perhaps it's not wise to put that in a magazine? But I ain't hiding anything.”
“Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.”
“To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.”

Source : Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.13, Harper Collins
“Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.”
“All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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