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"We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority."

"Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind."

"We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come."

"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men."
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."

"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."

"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."

"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."
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