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“When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.”
Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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“Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.”
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”
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“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
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“I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I want a formal apology from the mayor.”
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“I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.”