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“We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.”

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Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

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While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the…

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We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there…

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I told [ David Lange] he was crazy, because you can't have an alliance relationship if you refuse access to their ships. And the…

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I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

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There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that here is…

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We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.

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I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

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I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his…

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I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

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George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

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There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none…

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd…

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Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Martin Luther King, Jr

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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the…

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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in…

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against…

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“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but…

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us…

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