Notable Quotes

BEFORE anyone gives me a lecture about homosexuals and their rights, first talk about railways. – Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan President, rejecting Western attempts to link international aid with progress on gay rights, saying building infrastructure is more important

THE army were like vultures who found a prey. – Mohamed Zeidan, who filmed the beating of a woman in Tahrir Square, on the Egyptian police’s brutality against the demonstrator.YOU can tell by my face that the ball has to go in. I don’t give a damn how. – English Premier League’s Arsenal hot-shot Robin Van Persie revealed the secret of his goal-scoring streak last week.From The History BooksThere is no such thing as collective guilt. – Kurt Josef Waldheim (born December 21 1918 – June 14 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II raised international controversy.

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