Graeme Samuel quotes
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“You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.”
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“If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.”
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“Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.”
-- Graeme Samuel
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“I must follow them. I am their leader.”
Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1932). “Conflicts of Principle”
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“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Source : Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”
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“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
Source : "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications
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“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”