"You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not."

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Source : "The Life and Times of the Shah". Book by Gholam Reza Afkhami, p. 591, 2009.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.”
“So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”
“The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.”
“Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”
“When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con man and taunted him to prove his bulb could really work. Despite the naysayers, Edison pushed on, demonstrating the importance of sticking with his "crazy" idea which would go on to turn him into one of the world's most well-known entrepreneurs. The key here is to fan the foolish fire no matter what!”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.”
“Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”
“Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.”

Source : Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf

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