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“In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.”
Source : Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.
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“I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.”
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“You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.”
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“If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.”
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“The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.”
Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
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“One must be frank to be relevant.”
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“Also it'll be unbelievably cold in there and the thing I'm probably most worried about is my face. That sounds silly but it's very difficult, if you're in cold temperature water, to get your head under because it takes your breath away. And then your hands go numb so you try and wriggle your fingers while swimming to warm up. It's very tough.”
Source : "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”