Bulent Ecevit Quotes

#1. Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

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#2. It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.

Bill Orcutt

#3. There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

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#4. But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

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#5. Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

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#7. Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

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#8. I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.

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#9. We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

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#10. But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

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#11. The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

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#12. And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

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#13. Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#14. Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it.

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#15. We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of ... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

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#16. I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money.

Jean-Marie Eveillard

#17. Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

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#18. I will forgive,
but I wont forget,
and I hope you know,
you've lost my respect

Papa Roach

#19. We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

Paul Polman

#20. Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.

Ted Danson

#21. And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

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#22. So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

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#23. But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

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#24. But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.

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#25. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

#26. Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.

Tavi Gevinson

#27. No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

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#28. It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

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#29. I suppose a body gets used to laying under a sheet at night and when it doesn't feel the familiar weight of fabric pressing down over it, it can suddenly feel exceedingly unnatural.

Jason McIntyre