"The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them"

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Source : "U.S. offers help with Uzbek terror" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

Richard Boucher

#Appreciation Quotes #Uzbekistan Quotes #Details Quotes

“Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.”
“By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House
“She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.”
“It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.”
“If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!”
“AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.”

Source : "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.
“We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.”
“Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.”

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