"I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me."

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Source : "Iraqi Election Fear: 'No One Is Safe Anymore'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Klaus Brinkbaumer, www.spiegel.de. April 28, 2014.

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“Being a Celtic supporter is not always easy, but it is always worthwhile.”
“Bear patiently with a rival.”
“If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because Godâ€™s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.”
“I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.”
“I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”
“I donâ€™t want to lose you. Iâ€™m in love with you Blaire. Iâ€™ve never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I canâ€™t imagine my world now without you in it.”
“The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.”
“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”

Source : "Salman Rushdie: Do we have to fight the battle for the Enlightenment all over again?" by Salman Rushdie, www.independent.co.uk. January 22, 2005.

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