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Read quote“He was truly light years ahead of the rest.”
Read quote“If time is infinite, nothing is impossible.”
Read quote“When intimidation becomes a factor in reporting, journalism is thoroughly undermined.”
Read quote“I am an Indonesian, but I am also a person who lives in an international world. So I belong to the world.”
Read quote“But we want peace. We’re tired of war.”
Read quote“I felt abhorred by myself. And that's what changed my mind.”
Read quote“I never put anything into a picture that I don’t actually see when I’m painting a subject.”
Read quote“With all my sins around me, and with an earnestness and fluency I can never forget, I supplicated mercy through the blood of Christ as the greatest boon that Heaven could bestow.”
Read quote“In today’s borderless economy, the workings of the “invisible hand” have a reach and strength beyond anything Adam Smith ever could have imagined.”
Read quote“The task must be done and can be done.”
Read quote““We have always been driven by the same entrepreneurial spirit since 1926.””
Read quote“I will never stop being surprised that people like my music.”
Read quote“We, the Georgian people, have inherited three divine gifts from our ancestors: our motherland, our language and our faith.”
Read quote“I’d like it to be much more a universal sort of thing.”
Read quote“Nici un efort, cât de infim ar părea, nu este zadarnic.”
Read quote“كنت بروح الأفراح جدعنة من غير فلوس”
Read quote“Cinema makes us united.”
Read quote“Ariel es el imperio de la razón y el sentimiento sobre los bajos estímulos de la irracionalidad.”
Read quote“I will become a president who is at eye level with the people.”