"Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government."

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Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

Mahathir Mohamad

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“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”
“We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.”
“I didn't binge when I was pregnant.”
“I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.”
“The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.”
“I really look at my life before kids and after kids and before I was more - not narcissistic - but I was definitely more selfish. I didn't have the same concerns as I do now. I've always been political, but you've gotta be engaged. You can't be apathetic anymore because what's at stake is bigger than yourself, it's your kids.”

Source : "Raine Maida On Raising Three Boys". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.
“Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.”
“The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,”

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