"John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization."

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Source : Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Norodom Sihanouk

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“If no one had ever challenged religious authority, thereâ€™d be no democracy, no public schools, womenâ€™s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creationâ€”mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, thatâ€™s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.”
“It is sad when two people turn from the paths theyâ€™re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.”
“No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.”

Source : Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.119, Routledge
“I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.”

Source : "King of all his castles" by Elaine Lipworth, www.nzherald.co.nz. May 14, 2005.
“The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.”
“Silence is the best response to a fool...”
“Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“True affluence is not needing anything.”

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