Najib Mikati Quotes
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.
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The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
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The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
